This has been a difficult blog to write. I’ve started and stopped more times than I can count. It’s not that I haven’t had enough content or that we didn’t see God move. October in Romania may have actually been my favorite month on the Race so far. So why has this been so hard?
I had known for a few weeks that team changes were impending. When they finally happened at our Leadership Development Weekend in Bucharest at the end of last month, I was kind of shell shocked to be honest. In Romania, I grew to love my team as a real family. I just was not ready to leave them. They challenged me, pushed me, and loved me, more that I deserved. Writing a blog on my experiences in Romania to me seems like the final thing for me to do to close out that. And I’ve been holding out on that, because I haven’t wanted to move forward without this team. But I’m in India now, and life is happening! I’m learning and believing that just because a season ends, doesn’t mean the relationships made in that season end. It doesn’t mean the memories you have are no longer important. And it doesn’t mean that the work God did in that season is irrelevant.
To Jared, Connie, Amberly, Pablo, Brooke, and Bekah: Thank you! Thank you for calling me up to be more like Jesus, pushing me to be confident and bold beyond my own strength, and for encouraging me to embrace all who God made me to be. I love each of you so much. See you soon!
