I cannot believe I have been accepted on the World Race! Ahhhhhh! It still seems unreal to me that in less than six months I will be leaving the comforts of home to travel the globe. Since my acceptance a few weeks ago I went through a few different emotional phases. I started with ‘YES! I’m so excited!’ then I moved to ‘I have to quit my job…then I’m going around the world for a year….’ this immediately turned into laughing at the idea.
If you know me then you know I am a creature of habit. I like doing things a certain way, I like planning and organizing, in other words, I like control. The World Race is exactly the opposite of all these things that I like. It is unpredictable, I will not have control of very many things, when I get stressed I won’t be able to go organize my whole house I will have to find a new outlet. One of the reasons I am choosing the World Race is to get out of my comfort zone. To live with change and unexpected surprises and to be okay when something doesn’t go according to plan. Life doesn’t follow a plan, no matter how hard I try.
Being a teacher has helped me learn to change on the fly (sometimes I have taught a whole different topic in order to avoid a student meltdown) but my students can’t prepare me for the World Race. This I will leave to God. He will be my guide the next phase of my life. It is through Him that I hope to learn to see and love myself in a new way. To get over my fear of the uncontrolable and embrace life each day as it comes to me. So here I sit, at my computer approximately five months from my launch date, excited, scared, nervous but overall ready to take on this next challenge.
Where God guides, He provides. Isaiah 58:11
