Happy New Year!
I cannot believe how quickly time is passing by, January 20th! Where has the time gone! With the craziness of this season I feel like I am starting to get a handle on the newness of it all and I know that is helping me find pockets of time to step back and write. So thank you for your patience with me in this season and for giving me 4.5 months of grace in figuring out how to balance being present here and updating y’all. One of my squadmates from N Squad, Connor Gaul, wrote a blog recently about what it means to squad lead gap year and it is so accurate to the way I think and feel as well. He is squad Leading for a squad of 47 gap year participants and he is in Ethiopia right now.
So I encourage you to check it out here, https://connorgaul.theworldrace.org/post/what-its-like-being-a-squad-leader-for-world-race-gap-year.
You might be wondering why this post is called Breakthrough, well, each year I ask the Lord for a word to pray into, and this year BREAKTHROUGH is my word.
Breakthrough- a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development.
If I am honest with myself I don’t know how to be expectant with this word. I can’t even conceptualize what I need breakthrough in or what the Lord wants to do with this word. I was honestly expecting a word like “rooted” or “community” or something that had some kind of leaning toward what could be next for me but breakthrough is not those things. So I’m not sure what the Lord wants to do in it but I am looking forward to what the Lord does with it.
What I find funny is that breakthrough is the word that the Lord gave Jordan and I to pray over our squad back in Costa Rica, so I find it quite humbling that He also gave it to me for this year, but it also makes so much sense because I am a part of this squad too. Just because Jordan and I are leading doesn’t make the things the Lord asks us to pray over our squad any less for us as they are for the racers. Thank you God for that reminder! Thank you for refinement. 2020 is the start of a new decade and is the year I turn 30 (oh man that is something I have not processed yet) so I guess it only makes sense that God would ask me to seek him for an important discovery or development for the start of this new chapter. I can’t wait to see what He does this year. Can’t wait to share the BREAKTHROUGH!
