When I was younger my mother would wake my sister and I up, and yell that it was time to “make the donuts”. Of course I was little and didn’t really get anything out of that saying, heck I thought we were getting donuts for breakfast. Then as we got older “time to make the donuts turned into getting a glass of water on our face, because sometimes it is hard to wake up a high schooler, who knew? It wasn’t until later in my life that I realized donut making time, was basically, hey wake up and do something productive. Then after training camp it hit me. I had been asleep and not making anything (Especially donuts) for a while.
Before I even heard about the race, my devotion to the Lord was on and off, and it felt like whenever I had that fire, the flame was burnt out so fast and I would just be dim. I had such a small place in my heart for him, I was constantly putting on this front, but never really did anything. I was sleepwalking, I had no real lasting fire. Then I went on a retreat and that was pretty much the first time I heard God tell me to “wake up and make some donuts”. Of course it was faint, but I still heard it. However even when I did tone down the things that I felt filled this void in me, I still couldn’t hear it directly. It wasn’t until after a season of depression, an emotionally abusive and controlling relationship that ended, and some searching for void in soul fillers, that I could hear him. It was the splash of water on my face I needed to wake up.
The day after getting back from training camp, it felt as if a bucket was dumped on my head yes there were bucket showers, but that is not what I am referring to. However now that it has been two weeks since I have been home, I can already feel the enemy coming down, trying to drag me back to sleep, however our God is so strong that every time I feel the pull down, I look up and see or hear something and He is telling me to rise. Not only rise, but do something, go out and show God’s love, live the Gospel through my life. Just because I’m leaving in 5 weeks doesn’t mean that I can’t make the donuts here in the States a little bit longer. I am a child of God, and awake and I want to tell the world just how incredible it is to be awake and making some donuts. Now if you are reading this I pray that you too are able to come awake and make some donuts yourself (donuts can be any way of worshipping him and living the Gospel)
So now that I am awake, I have some things to tell the world on my blog.
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I am around $3,700 away from my next goal of $10,000 which is what will enable me to be able to take off on the plane in August with the rest of my squad.
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I have a one day fundraiser happening on the 7th of July, which is my 24th birthday, so I am asking that you think about joining my support team and donating $24 to my reach my goal.( or some form of 24, it could even be 240 or 2,400, which I know is a lot but it is an investment going towards spreading the love of Jesus and waking other people up too.
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If I reach this goal of 10,000 by July 22nd I will be shaving part of my head, and documenting it for the world to see.
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Most importantly Thank you to all the supporters who have joined my team and invested in me going, it means the world to me to know I have this community. Love you!!
