The transition from America to Cambodia was difficult but I soon became acclimated and found myself to fall in love completely with Cambodia- the culture, the people, the ministry, my student, and the almost daily use of wifi and access to western accommodations.
As the Holidays come and go and my time in Honduras continues on I feel I have now experience TRUE abandonment.
Abandonment of my family; I have had little to no communication with them since arriving in Honduras.
Abandonment of my daily (even in the past two months) of wifi and internet use; I live on a mountain with spotty cell service and only an opportunity once a week to get crappy wifi.
Abandonment of personal wants and habits for the sake of my team; this has been especially hard. I have grown up with the things the way they are for 19 years and so have all my teammates-so to learn to co-exist with each other (all us being completely different) has been hard. Don’t get me wrong I love them all dearly and they are my sisters, but community living can be hard.
And lastly, abandonment of Cambodia; a place I had come to know and love. A place I called home for 2 months. Packing my things up and moving on was hard, but through that I finally came to the realization that this race, this trip is N O T about me, rather complete
ABANDONMENT
for the Lord.
I signed up for the race a little over le over a year ago and started my journey of fundraising and preparing, but little did I know I would be sitting on the floor of a Honduran farm house over a year later writing about the T R U T H He had already set before me. I had in my mind that I would raise my money, I would prepare my heart and personal items to leave. I would go on the race and have a life-changing experience and I would touch so many people.
W R O N G.
God has raised all my money this far, and He will bring the rest I need in.
God prepared and is still preparing my heart each day. He provided money for my gear and people who would donate.
He chose me to go on the race, not the other way around.
And HE would make the differences-I would just be his vessel.
A B A N D O N M E N T
is a funny thing because it’s not a one-day thing, but an every day decision to abandon what makes you comfortable for the one who made you, created everything and sacrafices everything for you-so in return you attempt to do the same.
My prayer for this next season in my life is that the Lord would humble me and remind me the act of abandonment daily.
Thank you Jesus for your patience this far!!!
if you feel like practicing abandonment alongside me you can abandon your money into my WR Account to help me get FULLY FUNDED by December 31st!!!!!!!!! 😉 😉 😉
thanks for reading like always!
