The story of how my World Race Journey began is quite long. In fact, it would be too long to put all in one blog, so I am going to start with the beginning in one blog at a time.
When I was still deciding where I was going to do my internship, I had two options. Adventures in Missions or another outdoor company out in Washington State. I wanted to go to Washington, that would be cool, everyone would think I was cool and adventurous for going to the West Coast by myself. But of course, that was prideful to think.
When making my decision, there were a lot of things that played into it, a main one was fear. I was afraid that if I went out to Washington I wasn't going to meet the man of my dreams. I was afraid of my living situation, I was afraid of money, of losing friends, losing community. I was speaking with Ann Little, my boss at Adventures, and shared with her my fear. She said to me "Aubree, that is not how our God works." And she began to share how we try to much to plan things out ourselves. But we can't do that.
Our plans aren't as good as God's and they wouldn't be as special if we planned it anyway.
It was the day when I was expecting a call from the Washington company when God put Adventures on my heart. I started to think that I might want to work there instead, that I might have to tell the other company no. I thought I for sure had the Washington internship in the bag. Instead, I did not get an offer.
Wow, that really threw me for a loop. I was really disappointed. I got home, locked myself in my room and cried. I asked the Lord to show me why, what he was doing, where I was going to go, what I was going to do.
He led me to Hebrews 11:40 "God had planned something better for us…" Wow, he spoke to me. I asked, he answered.
And so, that's where I am, at Adventures in Mission in Gainesville, GA. God has not let me down one bit.
