If you have been keeping up with me the last 9 months or so, you have probably noticed that I have been planning on doing this thing called the World Race for a long time now. You might even be saying, “Is this girl even for real about this thing?” (Don’t worry, I ask that all the time, too.) I started off trying to launch in January of this year and ended up pushing my route back to August of this year. I have, yet again, decided to push my route back to January 2018.
Fundraising wasn’t even the biggest issue in this decision to push my route back again. For some reason I had and uncomfortable amount of anxiety about leaving in August feeling like it was too soon, so I asked God what to do and He gave me “India”. I had dreams about India and Indian people. India kept coming up in conversation with different people. A random guy on top of a mountain that I hiked to even started to talk to me about India. It seemed a little strange that I wasn’t even on a route that went to India. I immediately started looking up the routes that went to India and there were none in October, so my only other choice was a route in January 2018.
If I’m honest, I’m a little bitter about not being in the field yet. I should be in either Sri Lanka or Indonesia with R squad that launched in January 2017. I keep up with a lot of them on social media and see the crazy adventure that the Lord has put them on and how God is moving in incredible ways in their lives. THAT SHOULD BE ME. Why am I not racing right now?
However, through the bitterness, I think the Lord has been doing an amazing work in me by making me wait.
Until this point in my life, almost every time something in my life would get hard, I would give up and quit. Believe me when I say I have wanted to quit the Race countless times, but every time I ask God in desperate prayer if this is what He wants for me, He affirms it. He simply whispers, “Be patient, wait on me.”
In this waiting, I have had to trust the Lord more than any other time in my life. Right now, my life is shaped around going on the Race. I’m living with my parents, and I don’t have a “real” full-time job in order to prepare and fundraise for the Race. Not only have I had to trust Him with fundraising for the Race, but I have had to trust Him with my own finances working 1.5 hours away (where are the jobs in Morristown, please tell me?), with gas money eating up my paychecks.
I understand it might be hard for you, my supporters, to still support me after all this time. It’s hard for me, too, and I feel like a huge burden. But will you stick with me? Will you encourage me and build me up? Can I encourage you and build you up? I am looking for at least 5 people to be a part of a prayer team. I need people who will pray for God to keep preparing my heart, for more people to get behind this mission, and for the funds to keep coming in. Would you join me in the waiting?
P. S. I just wanted to give a little shout out to my monthly supporters who have been faithfully giving since I began this journey. You know who you are, and you have given me so much hope in this crazy hard waiting.
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P. S. S. It’s a little cheesy, but this has been my anthem the past few months, and I sing it with everything in me when it comes on the radio in my car. I hope you like and can relate to this song as much as I do!
