Wow. I’ve been on the World Race for 5 months now. I am in my last African country, I have a new team, and after these last 2 months in Malawi we will be taking off to our final country, Ecuador. There are a million things I could write about what this journey has been like so far. The truth is, is that I don’t even have all the words for that. This mission has been the best decision I’ve ever made. It has been the hardest yet most beautiful adventure of my life. I’ve witnessed the worst poverty I’ve ever seen but found the most love in the most broken places.
I’ve seen how God can take something broken and make it beautiful. Both in my life and in the people I’ve met here. I’ve met the happiest and most faithful people that have so little. Yet they worship God with their whole hearts and say that He is good, and that taught me what real faith was.
I have become used to not being in America anymore. I don’t have culture shock when entering a new country, because I have become used to the constant travel and craziness of this life. I have become used to abandoning my comforts and America seems like such a foreign place to me now. The thought of having the normalcy of my home again is a crazy concept to me. I’ll definitely have culture shock coming back to the states. But I also know that I will not return the same person I was, God has completely changed my heart through this. God has broken my heart for what breaks His, and He’s shown me what it means to completely rely on Him for everything. I don’t need what makes me feel safe, I don’t need my own desires, I need nothing but Him. His plans are better than my own. I have found contentment through Him and I am able to say that it is well with my soul.
So here’s to the next half of my race, here’s to these next 5 months and the new year. Here’s to more adventure, ministry and love. Wow, God is a cool dude. I’m ready.
