“Wait in the season”
“We don’t understand his seasons”
“This season will end”
“Prepare and expect the seasons to change”
Quotes like these have been scattered in my journals for the last couple of years. I have longed to do life differently. (Please note, my life isn’t bad, it’s pretty great actually. Good job, amazing church, great friends, and a family I like to see fairly often.) But I always wanted to do something different. Honestly my biggest fear has been that my life will be normal…that I’ll work a job, get married, have kids, and things will be normal…mundane. (Please also note, I want these things too!) I have been told that my life could never be mundane, just because I’m in it. I guess that’s a compliment. I have applied for jobs in different in far away places and tried to step out in missions, but each time God made it clear He wanted me in Halifax. I felt stuck. I had to learn to be content where God was calling me, no matter where that was.
Ever feel restless? I did! God continued to reassure that the seasons of my life would change, in His timing. And He reminded me that He has given me an adventurous spirit and passions for a reason…that my life would be far from mundane! FINALLY I felt like the door to leaving Halifax, which had been dead-bolted for so long, was beginning to open. God reminded me that the promises he has given me would be fulfilled, that his plans for me are good, and that I’m not alone in the waiting.
As I prepared and expected change, God reminded me of the World Race. So through a period of a few months, I went from feeling stuck in my life to preparing for an adventure that will change my life.
“Don’t be afraid to do a new thing”…I think the World Race counts as a new thing right? Somehow God has lead me to the World Race. I personally don’t know anyone who has ever done it and I don’t remember how I first heard about it, but I am excited to get to know God in a new way through it. I am excited to show God’s love in so many ways in so many places.
