David recently asked if I’d be willing to share, from a father’s perspective, how his involvement with the World Race has impacted the lives of those of us who remain stateside. As a parent watching my children grow up, I suppose I often found myself assessing their personalities, character, strengths, & weaknesses and trying to project into the future the type of men and women they would become. The World Race experience has taught me, thus far, that it was a mistake to look too soon for the man my son will become.
Since April, when David first connected with AIM, God has been stretching and molding him in new ways that I could not have foreseen. Likewise, God is stretching and molding me in ways that I had not foreseen. Racers awake every day with the expectation that God will be showing up in their lives… through a message from scriptures, an encouraging word from a friend, an act of kindness from, or for, a stranger, provision of their needs, and so on. By contrast, my life here at home is/has been governed by routine and “normalcy” and it is by looking at life through the eyes of our racers that I am encouraged to awaken each morning with a revived sense of expectancy of what God is going to do in, and through, me today.
When David launched in August, I sent forth “my son” and he left “his father”. I anticipate that, Lord willing, when he returns next spring it will be a reunion of “God’s man” with “God’s man”.
