I received the phone call on February 22nd that I was accepted to the WR. Almost a whole month has passed and I can’t help but be a bit disappointed and paranoid. Why? Because I have yet to raise money. What HAS been happening pretty consistently are attacks in every way. From my bike tire catching a flat, to quitting a problematic job, to being discouraged from friends and family about the trip, to falling off a bike and cracking my head open, to losing and then finding my complete list of contacts for fundraising, then having my laptop trackpad get water damaged literally as I was writing my fundraising letter, to being distracted from this race in every way possible and falling off on my daily devotional time with God for all of these reasons. (Sorry for the rant)
Let’s just say it’s been rough. BUT greater is He that is in me than he who is in the world. I am working hard on my days off and also trusting that God is going to show up for me. I recently spoke to the pastor’s wife at my church and she encouraged me so much. She told me to think about Paul and Silas and how they praised throughout their hardships and after being beaten with rods. Then she began to tell me that there is nothing that the Lord does in our lives in vain. She told me to ask God what he is trying to teach me throughout every trial and circumstance. She also told me that God is less concerned with what I am doing and only concerned with who I am becoming. (more like Him) As long as there is sharpening there is growth and I am all for this growing process up until the day I leave for the WR.
Jules x
