Yesterday was my 23rd birthday which I was able to spend with my family and relax. I reflected a bit about how I got to this point in my life. So much has happened in this past year. I graduated college, traveled across the country during the summer, moved in with my parents in an RV, and most recently moved to Georgia. I can’t say this is how I pictured my life would turn out after I graduated, but I’m so glad that it didn’t turn out how I thought it would. All of these changes have really challenged me to rely on the Lord and the people around me. As I was thinking about my life, I realized something that has changed a lot recently, I’ve become less independent.
This is something society looks down upon. Since I was in high school, I always was striving to become more independent. I wanted to do everything myself and never wanted to ask for help. Before getting accepted to the World Race, I was most exciting about graduating college and moving out to live by myself and start my life. Instead, I’ve become very dependent on God and the people in my life. At first I resisted because I didn’t want to feel needy.
For example, I got in a car accident less than two weeks after moving to Georgia, and my parents were out of town flying back to Wisconsin. I was on the side of the road at about 7pm in the dark with no clue what to do. At first I didn’t want to, but I had to ask my neighbors for rides that weekend to get everywhere. Additionally, this now left my family with one car with Thanksgiving right around the corner. However, so many people that I barely knew offered to take me to the hospital, drive me where I needed to go, made sure I had food, ect. I was blown away by people’s kindness. This made me realize how many amazing people there are to help in a moment’s notice, which I wouldn’t have realized had I tried to do everything on my own and not ask for help.
Getting in that car accident reminded me of 1 Corinthians 12:14-26 where it talks about how the body is made up of many parts. Each part has an important purpose and couldn’t function without the other parts of the body. We as humans, are made to rely on each other.
Speaking of relying on people, I have 3 days left to raise another $89 to reach my $10,000 deadline to go on the World Race!!! In less than 1 month I will be in Haiti where I could be doing things like working with local communities and churches to help woman and children trapped in prostitution as a result of human trafficking, working in orphanages, planting churches, ect.
