Hey everyone, it’s Caroline. 🙂
I’ve been sitting here for twenty minutes trying to figure out exactly what it is that I want to say, but here’s what I think it is: These past few moths have really gotten away from me.
Alex and I were just discussing how it has already be five months since we decided to go on the World Race, and it’s been three since we were officially accepted to go. It feels like all of that just happened. I just filled out that application, and I just had that interview, and I just got that phone call saying that we were going to travel the world and teach people about Jesus. It just happened, right?
Then I think about the fact that training camp is going to be happening in five months, and we’ll be leaving for the race only three months after that. It’s going to be here in an instant.
As soon as Alex and I decided to go I heard God tell me that my life could not go on hold while I waited to leave for the Race. And it’s so easy to do, isn’t it? I could easily spend the next few months of my life thinking about nothing but packing list and fundraisers and debating if I need a 60 liter pack or 70 (the answer is 70). But my life, my race, is already happening right now.
Yes, it is true, I break down into tears if I let myself really think about the reality of traveling to these countries and sharing my faith and meeting the people that I will inevitably come to love there. But right now I just want to fully embrace this season that I am already in. The season where most of my friends and family are just a phone call and a car ride away. Where church happens in the same place every Sunday and the whole sermon is in a language that I understand. The season where “work” means putting on scrubs and sitting in a lovely, air conditioned office five days a week. And where “home” involves a mattress and a shower.
I’ve gone through whole seasons of my life not realizing how beautifully God had crafted that time just for me. I don’t ever want to do that again. I want to recognize what I have while I still have it. So that, when the time comes, I can leave this season with no regrets.
“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
“I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.” Philippians 3:14
