Written July 4th:
Exactly one year ago from today I flew from Miami to the Dominican Republic; I had finally found the guts to put action behind my passion and head out to the mission field. It was the beginning of the most beautiful, messy, hard, yet amazing year of my life.
Today, I find it ironic that I’m waking up in a field full of tents that are occupied by future World Racers (Z,A -September squads, and B- October squad to be exact). Passion lies in their eyes, hesitancy in their conversations about leaving home, their jobs, and families for a year, and anticipation encompasses their questions of what lies ahead. I remember. Oh, how I remember.
I remember the fear that people would forget me. I remember the worry of finances and students loans. I remember the feeling of irresponsibility for walking away from my teaching job. I remember the hesitancy in my heart to open up to the 74 strangers I lived life with for a year. But mostly, I remember the feeling of sweet freedom when I released the ideas of what I had always thought my life should look like.
And I can tell you with all honesty, that I haven’t looked back until this week at training camp. I had to remember so the Lord could use me to walk B squad into the freedom of letting go of the world and grabbing hold of His hand.
I spent the past 10 days in Tennessee with 51 amazing people that will begin their World Race journey in October 2011. I can only pray that the Lord will use Mike & I to lead them further into more truth and revelations than I experienced during my own journey.
I’ll be speaking about my journey on the World Race and upcoming journey squad leading on Wednesday evening at the EDGE at 7pm @ FBC Clifton, as well as in the 8:30am and 11am services on Sunday the 17th at FBC Clifton. There will be a luncheon following the services on Sunday 🙂
