So i want to share with you a glimps of me. My name is Jessica (I usually go by Jessie or Jess) and i am 21 years old. I graduate this quarter with my associates degree and after the race i plan to go back and finish up school. I love meeting new people. I also have to greatest family and friends ever. They are everything to me.
I LOVE JESUS, i think if i didnt i wouldnt be going on this trip. But hes the reason I live and im honered he has given me the chance to go on the race. I am one of the those girls who grew up in a church my whole life. My mom says that she took me to church when i was less then a week old, so i have been there literarly my WHOLE life. I never really got it though. Either i was too young to get it or i just didnt care. I lived my life for myself, did my own thing, and learned the hard way.
I didnt really start taking my relationship with God seriously until i was a sophmore in high school. My aunt had cancer and passed away. After her death i was mad at myself for just going through the motion. I tried to paint this picture of my life like i had things together and that my relationship with God was sweet. I was really good at hiding things. One day it just hit me, i have no purpose without God. My aunt was a huge influence in my decision to follow christ. We can die tomorrow but whats our reason for living today? God is everything to me. They say God is either everything or nothing and hes about the only thing in my life that has ever made sense.
I hope that this race will break me from who i am. I want God to transform me. I know things are going to be tough at times and that i am going to get homesick but God gives us strenghth. Here I am Send me.
