Sooooo this is officially my first attempt at blogging. I have been finding it difficult to decide what to say in the About Me section that I decided to skip on to the question that most everyone will ask, WHY?
Why are you doing this?
Why the World Race?
Why now?
What?!?!…….
Because GOD told me so.
This is where I would like to just post this blog and be done with it. Shouldn’t the fact that God told me so be enough? Well yes and no. You see I am not the type of person that really completely opens up to a lot people. Yes, I will be friendly. Yes, I will participate in any conversation. Yes, I will be sociable. BUT truly exposing what I am feeling or thinking or who I am, that I’ve reserved for a select few. Well…until NOW.
To answer some of those whys… Life changed a lot in 2013. Every decision made…every event that occurred… led me to the World Race. God has been tugging at my heart for a long time to do more. The tugging started way before last year. It was more like 5 years ago. The problem was that I wasn’t stopping long enough to truly hear what the more was. I faintly heard it 5 years ago but said no. Should I be ashamed? I don’t really know. What I do know is that I am saying YES now. When I finally stopped trying to figure out what the more was…God led me to missions.
So I set out to figure out which one. Why the bolded “I”? Well you see I got really excited about having my answer. I was on the Internet looking at this mission or that mission and there are a lot. I started getting antsy and overwhelmed. I never doubted my answer but I needed to know the how. It wasn’t until I stopped looking and PRAYED that I found it. I had stopped looking for about 2 weeks when I decided to give Google another try. This time I typed “MISSIONS around the WORLD” which led me to the World Race website which led me to explore the blogs and videos which led me to without a doubt know that this is the HOW that God has for me!
So why even mention the fact that I don’t like sharing my feelings? Well this journey is about serving people and practicing bold love. I think the way every person displays this love is different. For me it’s going to be, COMPLETELY opening myself up. This completely terrifies me but loving boldly means dropping all walls I have put up. So I’ll start NOW with you as you (hopefully) follow me through this blog and I’ll continue in July when I meet my Squad at training camp and then in September to the people of India, Nepal, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, China, Mongolia, and Philippines.
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11 countries 11 months
