India is haunting
me.

I came to that unexpected
conclusion
about 4 weeks ago.
 

And honestly, this is a hard blog to write because it
involves some extremely

Deep and Intimate stuff.
 

The 2008 World Race was an AMAZING year.

The Freedom, Kingdom and Community I experienced were LifeChanging.

And the people of that trip will forever be family.


 
The reality is though, that in a broken world

People will hurt
us.

Even in the best COMMUNITY
the potential for hurt will be
there.
 

In fact: The
potential for hurt is actually deeper
and larger because of the depth of

Intimacy and Vulnerability involved.
 

Some very intense
words and confrontation happened with teammates during that month in India.

And it has taken me getting back out on the Race again to realize the

depth of hurt I
experienced in 2008.
 

As my team began the month of March we began to experience

much deeper
community.
 

Healthy confrontation was happening.

People were sharing
the depths of their heart.

The fight for what
our community would look like was
getting messy.
 

And the strangest
things were happening with me.

 

I was being super sensitive to any criticism or feedback.

Any time a team meeting got serious
or confrontational
– My chest
would get heavy, my stomach would hurt and I wanted out of
that meeting
!!!

I had no fight in me for
the team.
 

I had this realization.

Even though I had grieved
what happened in India. Forgiven the
people. And moved on.

The possibility
of pain and hurt again in this new community was crippling my ability to go

deep again with a
new team.
 
God is a genius.
 

He brings me back to
the World Race.

Puts me in the same situation where I was hurt.

And challenges me to trust Him and my new community.

Tells me my healing will come by being vulnerable all over again.

 

And essentially WALKS
ME RIGHT BACK INTO ONE OF MY DEEPEST WOUNDINGS.
 
I am telling you this because I Need Your Prayer.
 

This has been a huge surprise to me.

God has given me some relief, healing and revelation already but I NEED MORE.

Please be praying for
me.

And hopefully what I have gone through has helped you learn
something too.