This past four months of my life has been the best, hardest, most fun and challenging season I have ever been blessed with. I have been broken down and I have been full of so much joy that I felt like I would explode. Its been a wild ride so far. I still find it hard to believe that this is my life.
Team Zoa. What a fun mess we were in January. These people ( Alyssa, Jeff, Nathan, Mandi, Danielle and Caroline ) have been my family for the past 4 months. During that time we lived together, ate together, laughed together, fought together, shed a few tears together, and in a very real sense of the word, were a family and community. These 6 people pushed me further than Ive ever been pushed in my life and I am so greatful for it, but it wasn’t always nice and dandy.The Lord has shown me how to truly love selflessly and how to live life with high preference to others. I couldn’t have done it without Zoa. I have made some lifelong friends over the past 4 months.
Change is an inevitable element of life, and life on the World Race is no exception. We move at least once a month, make relationships with locals and then start again. Then there’s food. Trying to control the things you eat is a joke, its almost always different. Also, I have slept in so many different places the past four months that I cannot even begin to remember them all. ( I have actually woken up a few times and honestly could not remember where I was. ) Change is one of the things we can all count on.
That being said, we have just experienced our first team changes. Like life, things on the World Race change. While I will miss my old team a lot, I am very excited for the new season with my new team, Team Change! We believe that the Lord has some great things in store for us this season, and that there are some things in us He wants to develop. Rather than fear, or run from change, we have decided to embrace it. Change means growth. It cultivates maturity and gives us room to trust and depend solely on God. So as a team, we want to embrace that. We want to experience everything the Lord has for us, and if He wants to bring us through a season of changes, then we are all in.
Change is inevitable. My life, your life for that matter, is no exception. The Lord brings us through different seasons, at just the right time, because His timing is always perfect. Don’t fear the changing of the seasons. Get on your knees before the Lord and Embrace it.
Team “Change”
( Derek, Liz, Will, Kimberly, Michelle, Brooke, Micah )
