First I want to start out with the fact that blogging does not come easy to me, there is too much detail involved to entice me to even think about it. So I usually wait and say to myself “you will be so inspired to blog one day that you don’t have to worry about it” and I keep waiting for the right moment, but then I look back and realize I have just let the time pass by. Which quite honestly describes my life. I have come to realize that I am so comfortable with letting things work out or letting things happen at their own pace. Which sounds like a good quality to have but sometimes it leaves you regretting not going after things.
So you may be thinking where is she going with this? Well you are on the right track because I want to tell you about one thing I am not willing to give up on or let pass by and it is HOPE!
Ok I know I may be confusing you more now but just follow with me. I am not willing to give up on HOPE or the opportunity to share it. Which is why I am passionate about doing the World Race.
I think back to high school when I had hopes of going to college of starting a career and it gave me something to look forward to something that would help me pass the time. Although all of those things I had hoped for were good things do you see the problem? There always had to be something else because I was putting my hope on things of this world. What if they were all taken away? What if one day I would have woken up and my whole life was turned upside down, would any of those things really matter? Well that’s exactly what happened when I found out my Grandma, who had helped raise me, and that I loved more then anything in this world had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. My world was turned upside down, and suddenly the things I once put my hope in were not important. I felt hopeless and helpless knowing I was unable to fix it or change it. But I was reminded in that moment of pure devastation that there was SOMEONE that was unwavering that was unable to be shaken that would hold strong through everything even when I was weak and that I could put my HOPE in and that someone was JESUS.
Fast forward two years when I had finally decided to apply for the World Race and was really praying about my heart behind it. What was it that was going to make me drop anything and everything to GO? And the answer became evident…. HOPE… the LORD called me to share HOPE throughout the Nations. To people that do not even have their basic needs met, that do not have a place to lay their heads at night, to orphans that do not have someone to care for them, to women who have been saved from sex slavery and feel used and hopeless, and to anyone who is willing to hear that there is something greater and that no matter what type of life they live on this earth that there is HOPE in the Good News of our Savior and His name is JESUS. “Therefore go and make disciples of all Nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28:19
So why the World Race? Because I will NOT give up on spreading the LORD’s LOVE, HOPE and GRACE to the least of these.” However I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me- the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.” Acts 20:24. I know the Lord is calling me to GO and share this HOPE that has transformed my life, and honestly I cannot do this alone. So partner with me and together lets bring HOPE to the NATIONS where everything else has been lost!
