I never thought I would be graduating college in what feels like so soon. I never thought I would come out of college with friends that I would absolutely do anything in the world for. I never thought I would not know what I wanted to do with my life after college. I never thought I would be planning to travel around the world for an entire year, sharing the love of Christ to the nations. After signing up for the world race, I never thought I would have anything or anyone making me think twice about going. I never thought I would be so behind in fundraising and getting prepared…
Senior year of college as a Political Science/History major has been brutal to say the least. I have been pushed to my limits, forcing myself to spend every waking moment researching and studying constitutional law briefs. I would not trade what I have learned academically and also about myself through college for a single thing. I know so many students who do the very least that is expected of them in order to squeak by, and I feel sorry for them for missing out on the true benefits of a higher education. For the first time in my life, I feel I have begun to learn how to truly think. To think critically and analyze the world around me in a way that allows me to not go blindly through life basing what I know off of what I have been told, but instead to be solid in what I believe. Not only what I believe ideologically but also biblically. To allow myself to have a faith in Christ based off of biblical truth that is well reasoned will allow for a faith that is well grounded. But I digress.
What all my focus on school has done in a very practical sense is to set me very much behind for fundraising and getting prepared. I spend a majority of my time researching, writing, and working on other homework and when I get some spare time, I desire to spend it with the friends I have that I know I may not see for years to come after graduation. I have put fundraising to the very bottom of my list and I know being apathetic about it is not going to get me anywhere.
As school winds down, I need to refocus and begin to dedicate time to the mysterious fundraising thing that I have no idea how to do. I have a very hard time asking for money for anything, let alone for something as awesome as the World Race. I need to be humbled by my pride and become completely reliant on God to provide.
I ask that you might pray for me as my journey with the World Race, for all intents and purposes concerning my apathy, finally begins.
My best,
Benjamin Pickett
