Every day feels like an eternity.
Every week feels relatively short.
Every month feels like no time has passed.
This is the life of a World Racer I suppose.
Being soaked up in ministry in whatever country can have these affects on you. Every day seems so long. That you cannot wait until you can lay down in your bed, or whatever your sleeping arrangements are for the month. Every day can be exhausting especially when you give 110% to ministry. Whether it is construction, children, garbage dump, house visits or planning church services. When you give all you have you feel empty, but know the Lord will fill you up and send you out again the next day.
Weeks tend to go by relatively fast. Before you know it is Sunday, or free day or the day of the week you look forward to most is upon you. Sometimes weeks feel long. But usually they seem to fly by without any notice. And before you even realize a week has passed, here you are starting another week of ministry for the Lord.
Months even go by faster. I can’t believe we are already done with Month 2 of the World Race. Crazy right? I feel like it was just yesterday I was leaving Colorado. I was leaving home for who knows how long. Then it feels like I was just in the jungle of Ecuador sweating through the heat and dancing in monsoons. And it feels like yesterday that I was at our first ministry site in Peru, moving wheelbarrows full of sand or helping to make concrete. Where has the time gone?
And tomorrow we begin month 3 in Bolivia. It still seems unreal to me. Ecuador was new to me, but I am so comfortable with Peru it is like leaving home all over again; but this time not to my home in the states as usual, but rather to a neighboring country to do another month of ministry in South America.
It all seems surreal. Time is going by so fast, and with changing ministries, sometimes I am unsure what to think or what to do. I can catch myself just going along with the ‘routine’ we have placed out without really taking in each moment. I know I have gained and grown so much in these past two months, but have I also missed something?
Going into Bolivia, I will continue to give my all. Right now it is the end of month 2 and I can already sense myself tiring (2 months is the longest I have been away from home and on a mission trip). But I know that this is not over. I have 9 more months to go! I can’t tire out now! And I can only do this with the strength of the Lord in me. And so I begin from now, giving my all every day to ministry, focusing on the small things and most of all turning to the Lord for strength and help.
