I am excited for launch. The official date was released a little over a week ago, and spurred about 250 people from all 4 squads that are launching on January 8th, 2013 to book flights, bus tickets, and plan rides to Washington DC. On Jan 6th my mom will drive me to Buffalo, New York, where I will meet up with one of my incredible squadmates Chelsea Ellis and we will board a bus (the first of many over the next year) that will take us to where we need to go.
Not only has this news created a whack of travel plan bookings, but has also created mass amounts of excitement, telephone calls, emails, facebook messages, text messages, skype sessions, and I am sure quite a few blogs on the topic of launch. And the one sentence that I have noticed continues to repeat itself over and over and over again is….
"I CAN'T WAIT TIL LAUNCH!"
And I'm just gonna spit it out……… I can.
God has really been putting this on my heart….All my life I have lived for tomorrow, next week, or next year. I have looked to the future as something that is going to fulfil me. One day I will reach the destination, and I want to be able to say that I not only remember the journey but took full opportunity to enjoy it and live every moment to the fullest. I am excited for launch, I miss my squad, I miss my team, and am super pumped for everything that God is going to do in me and others while we travel the world and preach the gospel to the lost, broken, and hurting. But I am also excited for what God is doing right now, and I don't want to miss a minute of it.
Phillipians 4:11-13
….for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
I can wait for January because God has put it on my heart to live for right now, to be content wherever I am, and in whatever state I find myself in. When we are on the World Race our mission is to love…..but isn't that our mission each and every day? And while I am still at home in Canada I need to do the same, love and serve those that are around me. In less than 2 months I will be away from my family, friends, youth, church, and home. And right now, pre-launch, all I want to do is spend as much time as I possibly can soaking up every single minute of life with them.
I don't want to live my life always looking to the future only to miss what God has put in front of me today.
“There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present.”
-Grenville Kleiser
