I have been sent, and so I am going…
Starting in January of 2012 I will be leaving for 11months to travel to 11 different countries on 4 continents. I will get to work alongside churches and organizations that are located in these countries. The countries I get to travel to are Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ukraine, Romania, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia.I will be serving, loving and just being the hands and feet in these countries for those who need to know the love of Christ. I get to go and share with people a purpose, hope and love. I want to get to know people who I have never met, to love those who have never been loved. This fire inside me is propelling me to the world to do whatever comes my way and experience every opportunity that I receive.
I am terrified of what is going to come, I am terrified of the year I will be gone. The celebrations of friends and family that I wont be able to attend, the unknowns I will face. But on the other hand I am thrilled for this amazing opportunity that not many people receive. I get to be a part of the lives and celebrations of my team and the people I will meet. Who gets to say that they have had such an amazing opportunity? I feel so blessed.
But now that I am preparing to go I am so thankful and humbled by this amazing opportunity that I have been given. I am not going to take for granted this chance in a lifetime to see the world and love the people in it. To experience things, to have my heart moved and changed by what I see, to go. I am finally getting to put my adventurous spirit to the road and see where it takes me. Putting feet to the desire I have had to meet strangers with different stories, accents and ways they see the world. I am so excited to see how he changes me as I walk on from here.
So far for me it has been about a willingness to be used. Hearing my calling and going. Even if it means leaving the hopes and dreams I thought you had for myself. Leaving the picture of what I thought my life would look like. It is allowing God to blow my mind with the impossible, show me that there is more than what I have expected. I get to break the chains of the ordinary and enter into a life of the extraordinary. But this is my breaking out; this is my walk towards the unexpected. To see what God can do with my willingness to go.
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that isn’t what it was built for.” (Grits, Believe)
