43 more days.
It doesn’t feel like that long ago that I hit the submit button on my application for the World Race.
Yet, here we are with less than two months left until I return the US.
Nine months ago, I left everything I knew and set out on this journey.
I entered into a season of unknowns.
Where will I lay my head down to sleep?
When will my next shower be? Or meal?
Where will I live? Will I have a bed? Or running water?
Will I have access to WiFi to call my family for their birthdays or Christmas?
What will we be doing when I get to our next country?
When and how will we get there?
While, initially all of these unanswered questions gave me anxiety. I’m learning to be content.
Now I’m entering into a new season of unknowns upon my return.
And, I feel so much peace.
The things God has placed on my heart for this next season don’t promise much profit. And don’t promise to be easy. But I trust in God’s provision.
For those of you who are wondering what’s up next, here are my tentative plans and the things I’ve felt placed on my heart:
I graduated college almost 3 years ago with an education degree and spent two years teaching middle and high school social studies. This degree and job satisfied my desires to impact the lives of youth and share my passions for social justice and history.
During those two years, I also volunteered with our local Young Life chapter. Since learning about this mission, I’ve truly become passionate about it and have found it to align perfectly with what I’ve felt as my life calling: to make the love of Christ known in the lives of teenagers.
Therefore, since I’ve felt convicted that I cannot fully invest in both teaching and Young Life, I feel called to spend this next year focusing on Young Life.
For the month of August, I will be volunteering Washington Family Ranch in Oregon before diving back into the school year.
I’ve also felt strongly that I should apply to work at coffee shops, and perhaps open my own, as a ministry to high schoolers who frequent them to study.
I don’t know anything about starting a business, or even how to make a latte, but I trust that God will provide, if these desires are truly from Him.
I’m reassured by God’s faithfulness in the past, both to me and in Scripture.
Countless times throughout Scripture, God calls people to leave behind them all that they’ve known to follow Him, and He never failed them.
So, I am confident that God will do the same for me.
He doesn’t promise a glamorous life, but a fulfilling one.
And, that is all I need.
