It’s Almost Over
It’s Month 10, and that’s completely surreal. I can look back to Cambodia and month 1 like it was just a few weeks ago. I knew then, at the end of that first month while sitting in a coffee shop in Phnom Penh, that this journey would fly by.
It’s had it’s long moments for sure, but I feel like I’ve blinked and now I’m here. One of the oldest Racer’s on the field (October Squads are the oldest on the field that is). In less than 2 months I’ll be State side again and trying to figure out how to adjust to a new normal.
I won’t be packing up by belongings into 2 bags at the end of every month and moving somewhere else. I won’t be trying to adjust to the different sleep situations or be around my team 24/7 anymore. I won’t be trying to figure out what food something is because the words on the label will be in english. I won’t be trying to learn a new culture every three weeks so I don’t offend the people there. I won’t have to figure out what people are saying because it will be in my language. I’ll be coming home, but it won’t be my normal.
Being on the field, going to all these different countries, has definitely changed me. I’m not the same person I was when I left, and I’m thankful for that. But the last thing I want to do is to go back to the States and revert back to who I was before I left.
I’d like to think that that can’t be possible, but it is. Continued growth and change is a pursuit that has to be made daily. It is possible to take 3 steps back because we’ve let slide our role in pursuing God and Christ-like character.
Leadership with the World Race has talked a lot about the disciples of Christ, how they spent every day and moment with Jesus for 3 years. They have correlated the World Race with year 1, and they’re question to us is “What does your year two look like?”
What does year two look like for me? I’ll obviously be Stateside, but what does year two hold?
Coming home to the States is a nerve wracking thing for me. Not only because I don’t want to revert back, but because it’s also going to be a new experience. I’ll see the States and all that entails with different eyes. One of my advice to future racers is something that I hold dear to myself. That the change God has started didn’t start with the World Race so it certainly won’t stop when the Race ends either. The Race has been a tool God has used to draw me closer to Him. To come deeper into relationship with Him and to pursue growth and change into His characteristics.
Whatever is next for me, I know that God holds my future in His hands. He will provide and He will guide. There is no safer place to be than at the center of the will of God. Ultimately, where God wants me, I will be. I can go kicking and screaming or I can say yes to where that is, but eventually I will be where He wants me to be.
Where God places us is for a reason. It serves a purpose that is far greater than ourselves. We are tools in other people’s lives to point and direct them to Christ. To bring Kingdom in every place our feet are at.
I’m looking forward to being home. It’s weird to think that next month I will be back in the States. This journey will end and another will begin. Wherever God leads me next, I look forward to the journey it entails.
I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July!
Till Next Time,
Kara Faber
