disclaimer: this blog might be all over the place because I am literally typing from the heart and just how I feel whether it makes sense or not
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so the world race has officially begun and I’ve been here in Chiang Mai, Thailand for about five days and it still has not hit me that this is my reality now.
this is my home for the next two months, I’m in another country on the complete other side of the world, I’m 12 hours ahead of Texas.
sweet Texas. i miss it, but then again i don’t. it’s so hard to explain how I feel.
i miss my family; jamming to goodbye earl by the dixie chicks with bailey, laughing at mimi’s silly sayings, watching goofy syfy movies with gugga, talking about life with mom, little walks to the store down the street with dad, laughing until we’re on the floor at sammie and libby being ding dong dogs.
i’m here though, and the things i love are crying laughing at stories about something like bananas with my team, painting on each other, walking four miles back to the hostel in 94 degree weather with 90% humidity, and the long Jesus talks with my new family on the roof.
i’m no longer in the comfort and safety of my home and my family, but rather in the beautiful craziness in thailand with my fellow rooftop dwellers, spreading the love of Jesus to the people of this city!
this is real life, this is my life now for the next 2 months in Thailand, then one month in Malaysia, then three months in costa Rica and three months in Ecuador, THEN home. nine months away, nine months of loving new people, nine moths of loving my squad/my team more and more, nine months of hard work and exhaustion, nine months.
nine months.
wow.
when i say that i’m livin the dream, i mean it!
it’s funny to think that i continuously told God “no” to the world race. i told him to pick someone else, that there was no way i would do this, and yet, here i am. laying on the floor of our hostel in chiang mai writing a blog.
life is good, Gos is good. yes and amen.
