Month 4: Vietnam
Word from God: Family
This is the country that sold me on choosing route 3 in the first place as it has such a personal significance for me & I m so excited to have shared serving in this country during peacetime with Team Surrendered 51 years after my dad served during wartime as to me it was an honor.
When God reveled the word family to me, I cried because of not only the fact that I am extremely close to my dad as far as blood family goes, but the 5 other gals that make up Team Surrendered I have come to love like sisters and am honored to call them my sisters in Christ
Vietnam will always have a special place in the heart for these 2 reasons alone.
Month 5: Cambodia
Word from God: Change
Change sucks as that is something that I have finally come to realize as much as I hate change, I have come to learn that it is inevitable, and that I have to accept it no matter what or how bad it is going to be.
Change can also be good too, and change can help us grow which is what I want even tho at times I may want to fight it.
This month has been a month of change: New country, new ministry, new leadership & new teams
Goodbye Team Surrendered, Hello Team SC!
I must admit that I did not take team changes as gracefully as I should have. One of my flaws is that when I connect with a person then I connect deep, and I connected very deep with the 5 other gals that made up Team Surrendered, and when team changes happened, I felt like I just broken up with my best friends. I overreacted by getting up and leaving the cafe once I had gotten my slip of paper with my new team on it to go sit out on the porch, and I started to brawl my eyes out and telling myself that somehow the spirit screwed up by putting me on a new team, I wanted to quit the Race over team changes, which I know was childish, but that’s my natural reaction to sudden & overwhelming change. The only thing that comforted me was that a few minutes later my good friend on the squad who also happens to be one of the newly raised up squad leaders came out to check on me, and sat quietly next to me before asking to see my paper which I hadn’t even looked at yet to see who my new team was for I was still too stubborn to submit to reality of team change. She also prayed with me which gave me some more comfort, and once she did that, I did feel a little better, but I was still in my sulky mood. I finally got up to go back inside to meet my new team.
One of my goals while on the Race was to grow in my faith, and to rely more on God in my daily life, and that includes change. God has me on this team for a reason, and while I may not know that reason right now, maybe I will later.
Now I have learned to embrace my new team, and I absolutely love each one of them! Yes they will kick my butt at times, but so did my old team, and it is all because they want to grow and change for good, and lead a better Christian life.
