Whatssss up my people, okay so this post is going to be about how I decided that I wasn’t going to go to college right after graduating high school and how I decided that I was just casually going to go around the world for nine months trusting God to do some crazy awesome stuff. I have wanted to major in athletic training since sophomore year of high school and I was planning on going to the University of South Carolina for that. In about October of this year I just decided that doing that was not what I really wanted with my life, so I started weighing the options of other majors I could do and may enjoy, but I changed my mind almost every other week. Flashback to the beginning of my senior year I decided I would trust God whole-hearted to take control of my life (because I tend to try to control things and just can’t). So with all of this crazyness of not knowing what I wanted to do I found myself on a fall weekend retreat with my youth group. The lessons had nothing to do with this and yet I found myself fully thinking about it. So in the first quiet time I asked God to show me and lead me to his plans for my life and just show me a sign somehow of what I should do. Later on this youth pastor Caleb Yoder was talking and he made us do this thing of holding a rose and when we were ready putting it on a cross as symbolism for letting go and giving it to God. With this I was just sitting there and then all of a sudden I had a gut feeling and voice in my head that was like “hey sarahcatherine, remember that world race thing christian did last year…that’s gonna be you”. I remember sitting there like no, no,no, no, no, no, you’re funny God cause that’s not going to happen. Eventually I turned my rose on the cross and since then he has just shown me more and more signs of how this is truly his calling for me for the next year. It hits me in moments where I’m like I’m doing what?!?!?!? But I am truly excited for it! I was on the way to school right after this weekend and literally screamed at a stop light that I wasn’t going to college because doing this is not the norm and I felt empowered screaming something that I never would have chosen to do on my own accord, but thats just the thing I don’t get to always chose. I know what God has in store for me is better than I ever could have imagined but it’s cool to see how I got here. I have had sign upon sign that this is my calling so I am just trying to keep up with God so he can do what he wants through me! If you have any questions about about what the signs God gave me to do this trip please ask me! Or if you have any other questions as well, just ask!
oh ps I do plan on going to college after the world race but the world race is the first thing I’m doing!
