From the time I first stepped foot into Nicaragua on a mission trip almost 10 years ago, something changed, something inside me was set on fire. It’s hard to put into words what it was but I can tell you from a coffee drinkers perspective it was similar to the moment where the brain fog is lifted and the caffeine makes its way into your brain. The moment when you wake up from a dream and realize that there is so much to live for. With such an intense and life changing experience at a young age I though I knew exactley what I wanted and I would do everything to become a missionary, but after Nicaragua I went back to high school and after high school I went to college and after college I had to make plans for my future, to start a career to be responsible and pay off my student loans and every step I was taking was leading me further from what I really wanted.
One of the things that had made me feel fully alive was pushed to the back burner and I told my self, later, I can do missions later. I can do it when I have saved up and spend my retirement doing mission work. I can wait until later when I have a family and we can travel the world and do missions together. I can wait until I’m married and my best friend and I will be missionaries together. I can wait until later when one of my friends wants to come with me, or until later when I can go with my church. I kept finding myself saying and thinking the same thing…. I’ll do it, but it will have to be later. Well later doesn’t satisfy desires and after pushing down the desire for long enough I was faced with a choice. Keep working and keep waiting or do it. I chose to switch things up and push ‘later’ to the back burner because the only good thing that comes from putting off your passion is restlessness, and restlessnes isn’t something that is easy to ignore. The only feasible option to get rid of the restlessness is action. That is what got me to The World Race and its time to make later, now!
