Some call it passion, others call it desire, but that is not what I call it. As hard as it is to describe this feeling within me, I think I have finally found the perfect words. I have been lit on fire for life. I wake up every morning with an intense urge to go out and live as fully as I am able. This feeling has become something I crave in every single moment of my life, something I feel empty without. I have searched countless of places to find this feeling and have only found one, the Lord. Whenever this feeling seemed to fade within my heart, I always found myself running back to Him and asking Him to rekindle my flame. As I began to fall deeper and deeper in love with this feeling, I found myself falling deeper and deeper into my relationship with the Lord and found that I never want to leave.
As my graduation approaches, I have been faced with many difficult decisions on what God is calling me to do with the next chapter of my life. Is it to play college volleyball, to take a gap year, or to go to an in-state college and continue my education solely as a student? This was not an easy decision for me. I contemplated every pro and con to the smallest detail, but yet found myself torn between every one of my options. I turned to the Lord and begged for clarity and when I found the World Race, I knew he had answered my prayers. He had relit my flame more intensely than ever and I knew right then, this is what He had planned for me. As I began to look into this nine-month journey across the world, this feeling intensified. I had been chasing this feeling my entire life and knew I never wanted to turn away from it, so I ran. I applied, got accepted, chose a route, and am now writing my first blog of many to begin this crazy, scary, wonderful, unknown nine-month chase for the fire.
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“He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.” Psalm 23:3
