This weekend a group of squad mates and I set off to hike Acatenango, the tallest volcano in Guatemala! It was the most physically…and mentally….challenging thing I’ve ever done.
As soon as we set off ,the all too familiar feeling of striving to be the best overcame me. I stuck to the front of the group for the first half of the hike because I just HAD to prove myself. I pushed and pushed when the whole time I could have easily swallowed my pride and gone at my own pace. #humbled.
This is the same feeling I felt when our teams joined together for an all squad month. The second that twenty two girls entered the picture I immediately started to try to win approval. I was striving so hard to be the person that everyone expected me to be.
This blog isn’t long or eloquent but a reminder that I got that I don’t have to strive. I don’t have to run up mountains or be the perfect world racer or roommate. It’s silly how fast I forget these things. But God is so patient and willing to remind me everyday that I am His, and that I don’t have to strive or earn anything.
