Welcome back riders!!! How was your ride?!?!
This summer I felt a calling to help fund my World Race trip by working at America’s Rockin Roller Coast!! Also know as Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.
Here I am able to work nearly 80 hours per week!! Who in their right mind wants to work 80 hours a week? ummmmmmmmmm I do.. well not really.
So I just graduated college and now I’m working minimum wage at a theme park? Yep.
I had the option after graduation to move to Texas and live with my Mom and her husband for the summer. There, I would have the opportunity to save some money and work on fundraising, as well as be with family. BUT…. here I am in Sandusky, Ohio.
For the first few weeks, I was miserable, I felt so lonely and questioned what I was doing every day. The days seemed to drag on, it was cold, rainy, or scorching hot and did I mention miserable? I would get home from a 13 hours shift with my feet throbbing and hating my life. To be honest I felt overqualified to be working alongside highschoolers and to be making minimum wage. I had this big headed ego that I was better than everyone and I was too good for that kind of work. Who was I becoming?! I was becoming a person I had never been before.
I had to check myself many times on why I am working at Cedar Point and remind myself that God wants us to;
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. – Philippians 2:3-4
As the days go by and I am finally starting to trust God’s call for me to be in Sandusky I am reminded:
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. -1 Corinthians 10:31
God has blessed me with the opportunity to be able to work and I should be grateful for my job and happy to be able to meet so many different people from all walks of life. Let’s be real. That is one of the main reasons why I feel called to the World Race is to work, live, laugh, love and share the love of Jesus alongside others around the globe.
Starting off this summer was pretty miserable because I had such a lack of trust for God and went kicking and screaming to His call for me to work in Sandusky. I would be lying if I said I am really happy here but right now I can tell He is teaching me to take heart in every situation and recognize this is His plan; not mine. In my times of pain and unhappiness, after I wallowed a little lol I know God is good and has grace for the times I am conceited, the times I am untrusting and times that I am unhappy with where He has me.
in Romans 5 Paul writes;
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character; and character, hope. Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
That is a long passage but I know God is teaching me a few things being here. I am starting to understand the depth of His grace. I am learning more to trust and rely on His plan and not mine. He is blessing me with the opportunity to work for His glory and work towards this journey I am taking on. I am learning that every situation I am in is not going to be a piece of cake or something that I want to do. In these times,I am learning to seek Him and find the fun and positives of it all. Now that I am seeking and relying on God more; I am happier with where I am and am actually starting to have a lot of fun! I’m letting go of that ugly ego I had when I got here and letting God work through me. He’s showing me some pretty cool things.
I just need to sit back, relax, hold on tight and enjoy the ride 🙂
