Month 11 hits you and you never saw it coming. What do you mean this is over? What do you mean I have to say goodbye for the last time? I won’t be in a tent anymore, showering behind a storage container? I won’t have monkeys and ants eating all my food? How will I adjust?
It’s surreal to be facing the last two weeks of this journey. This has been the hardest year of my life. I have gone through things and felt things I didn’t know I could feel. I’ve come face to face with decisions and consequences form my past that I’ve had to deal with and I’ve had to place my future in God’s hands and trust that I’m still following His will. But most importantly, I’ve come face to face with the Living God. He is real, He is an all-consuming fire, and He has changed me.
I thought when I left for the Race that I was leaving to impact the world. God was going to use my small act of obedience to do big things. He did, but He also did so much more. God used this journey to allow me to draw close to Him. He used the good and the downright ugly to reveal Himself to me. I have seen my God move in my life in ways I didn’t know He could (and had never before given Him the space to). He healed my heart from wounds I had been covering for years.
When I left in January, I wanted to know what unshakeable faith looked like. I wondered what it was that made people so sure of God and so willing to give themselves up for Him. I can say that on this World Race I have seen, tasted, touched, and heard unshakeable faith.
I have been told of the goodness of God by people who live in a shack with only a bed and a few chairs as furniture, seen joy and laughter on the faces of children who have no clothes and live in a village where that houses are made of garbage, heard people testify to the love of God in the midst of a family member’s death, and felt the healing touch of our heavenly father as He healed me of back pain.
God is great. God is able. God is working. His Kingdom is here on earth and His hand is over this world. What is unshakeable faith? It is Christ in us, the hope of glory.
Thank you so much for supporting me over these 11 months. This journey is only the beginning and I cannot thank you enough for standing with me.
