We are in Manzini, Swaziland to begin our month 8! The last 7 months have been wild, and it’s still not over.
I continue to be amazed that while The Lord doesn’t need us to do incredible things, He invites us to be part of it. He wants to use us and wants us to know Him more and experience so much of His goodness.
One thing I have learned on the Race is the difference between “knowing” God and experiencing God. We can fill our minds with endless amounts of information but until we experience Him we can never begin to truly know Him.
I can say confidently that The Lord loves the elderly in Guatemala, the community in Nicaragua, the street kids in the Philippines, the church in Cambodia and Nepal, and the children with disabilities here in India because I have seen it first hand. It’s a weird moment when you see a place or a person and immediately have an unexplainable love for them. It is straight from The Lord and I am convinced that even in those moments, I am only capable of feeling a fraction of how the Father really loves.
That is when I get to be the physical hands and feet The Lord.
At the same time, I have seen The Lord move in my family back home. I have seen wild transformation in just 7 months from thousands of miles away where I have had no say or hand in the process. I am confident that the Spirit has more freely moved in my house in California because I listened when He told me to do the World Race.
While that may seem incredibly backwards or not make any sense, Jesus has shown me that in His Holiness, it makes perfect sense even if I never understand it. In His genius- it. just. works.
That’s when I get to sit and watch!
What might be even more amazing, is how blessings flow from both situations. Whether it’s an invitation to physically hold a child or to watch from far away, I don’t know which one I have been more blessed by. But this I am sure of, I have experienced so much of God’s character in both and am so humbled that He wants to use me. All I have to do is say “yes” to being part of something so much bigger than myself… and then I have to keep saying “yes” everyday for the rest of my life.
Will you say yes with me?
Thank you for all of you’re help, when I first said yes to the World Race,
$16,255 sounded impossible. But thanks to you and your support we are at $13,837!
Right now I need another $2,418. The deadline has passed and I have been given a little bit of time to raise the rest before I get sent home. Would you consider partnering with me financially and prayerfully so that I can finish the last 4 months strong. And please share my blog with anyone that you think may be interested in joining me as I say “yes” to being used by The Lord. I can’t do any of this on my own and I could not have made it through the last 7 months without you!
