I think God led me here, to The World Race, for many reasons. The biggest reason: so I wouldn’t level off. So I wouldn’t get in a rut with everyday life. He didn’t want that for me. He had something else planned.
When I met the Lord, I fell in love. And I loved Him hard. I spent so much time with Him. I was in school and headed down a path of ordinary life. While meeting Him changed my life, it didn’t change my path that much in the beginning. It was still school.
Our relationship grew, and it grew fast. Sometimes I felt like I was running so fast that I would trip over my own feet, but He would help me up, and then I would start running again.
I can sort of feel the Lord laughing at me while He’s watching me run. Like I don’t have to run this fast, but He let me because He saw how happy I was and how much I loved Him. He let me run even though it would have been okay to hold His hand and walk with Him. I didn’t slow down for a long time. I was so in love and wanted Him so much so I was running through the pages of my Bible like it was a magical forest.
I think most relationships like this would burn out. You give it everything you have, and then you eventually get tired or burned out.
But the Lord loves me more than I love Him.
He wasn’t about to let our relationship level off.
He wasn’t going to let His friend settle down and have an ordinary life. So while we are still young, He has decided that we need to go on an adventure. I don’t know what this adventure holds. He does. He planned it for us. I do know that whether I am running, walking, swimming, crying in the mud or freezing, He’s going to be there through it all. And that is so beautiful – that someone would genuinely love me like the Lord does and never leave me.
How could I fall out of love with a love like that?
My heart is so full.
I could easily see myself finishing my masters, becoming a teacher, moving out of my parent’s house, becoming an actual adult, living a quiet life. Routine. Normal. I know it doesn’t have to be, but if I did this now, it would be.
Thank you God. There’s someone who knows the desires of my heart, and He’s decided to give them to me. I can not wait for this new step of my relationship with the Lord. More falling in love all over again and even deeper – crying together, praying together, eating together. I feel safe traveling with Him. He’s my provider, my protector, and my compass.
I wouldn’t want to go with anyone else.
I wouldn’t want to be with anyone else because the love story I have is real, and it is the most beautiful thing I have ever felt.
Now we get to go around the world and tell people about our love story. We get to share our love.
Although we are going on The World Race, we aren’t sprinting. I want to slow down with the love of my life, hold hands, and move at a pace where we can actually talk, where we can develop a more intimate relationship because lets face it, how hard is it to have a conversation when you are sprinting?
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:4-5
Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Psalms 37:4
