Yes you read that right!!
God has been working in my life in amazing ways through out the past 3 months in amazing ways on the World Race. He has challenged me to get outside of my comfort zone more times then I could count and it is the most amazing to look back now and see what he has done though somthing that was uncomfortable at the moment but over all after finishing was way better than anything that I have ever done before!
So last month (October 2017) my team and I were in Honduras and one night I had a dream that I was out in a community and I was talking about what true beauty is and how it does not come from looks but comes from God. And as I was explaining this in my dream I realized that I did not have any hair when I was talking to this group of girls.
The next morning when I was thinking about what my dream was I was talking to some of my teammates and I shared that I had Avery strong feeling that I wanted to shave my head. This was a thought that I could not get to leave my head and so I really thought that it was something that I needed to do.
But I also knew that If I just jumped into somthin like shaving my head with out even thinking about it or asking God about it then I was most likely not the right time. So I prayed to God and asked a scary question of did he want me to shave my head again??
A little back story… at the end of my junior year of highschool I shaved my head to raise money for childhood cancer resurch. At this time in my life I was 17 and I was extremely passionat3 about what I was doing but I was not at all confident in how I felt about myself. So after about 3 years of my hear growing out I said that the likelyness of my shaving my head again was very slim becasue a dream that I have always had is when I get married is to have long hair!!
Back to today!!!! After I prayed about shaving my head God ansered that he did not want me to do it at the moment!! Whoo what a relief !!! BUT he said that if someone on our squad was going to shave there hair then that was the moment. So I was fine with that answer because I did not think that it would happen at least for a few months but I was still thinking about how it would be a really unique ministery tool (remember my dream).
So the day before we left for Nicaragua my team left our host and traveled to another team on our squad to stay the night!! When we got there one of my squadmates Rachel shard with us that she had gotten lice and that she was going to shave her head that night!! Well here was the time that God had told me about just two weeks earlier!! So I shared that I was going to shave my head as well that night !! So Courtney one of my other squadmates said that she would have our heads and she rocked it in World Race style with clippers that were for a beard (thanks RYAN) and a headlamp for extra light and a sheet underneath to catch all of the hair!!
Let me tell you I was so excited to shave my head that I did it with out looking back!! I was ready even if we have to do a hoarder crossing the next day (I entered the country of Honduras with hair….). I can tell you that it has not been the easiest transition with my own thoughts popping in and the devil putting doubts into my mind.. But today I know that God is so proud!! I fell more confident in my own skin then I have ever felt!! I also know that I am beautiful no matter how much hair I have on my head because God created me as a reflection of himself and he would not make somthing that is not beautiful.
This month we are in Nicaragua and it is beautifu!!!
