Graduate high school- go to college- graduate college- find a job- work-work-work-retire.
Sometimes it feels like we are all on a big conveyer belt getting spit out into the real world where we find our way through mistakes and luck. Our fingers are crossed as we hope that the resume shines our brightest version of ourselves. We say a prayer hoping that the last 4 or 5 years of college were all worth something. Hopefully, we will be in the profession that we love even years down the road. Now we are done and the caps have been thrown and we are striving to make a way in a world that doesn’t have time for anyone without experience. When the job finally lands we repeat life, day after day just trying to make a way in a world that’s lost sight of whats right.
But isn’t there something else we can do? Like, make a difference in a world that feels like it’s forgotten you. So I step away from the path and into the lost woods of the world and cross fingers and trust that there is a bigger plan here.
In January of 2019, I will be boarding a plane and leaving the United States behind for 11 months. I will travel to 11 countries with a backpack on my shoulders and a bible in my hand. I will step away from the world of teaching and school and step into the position of a student with God as my teacher.
The world race was crazy and an adventurous idea that I had in the back of my mind for years. This month I took the dive and signed up and immediately felt the panic. What did I just do? The voice in my head settles my anxiety as I remember who I did this for. God. He calls me places that I’ve never imagined and leads me to paths that are not found to be the usual way to go. So here and now I’m looking for support as I take all my fears and run full force at them with God as my shield. To feed the hungry, to care for the sick, to build, to clean, to play, to support. To do whatever is asked of me in 2019 as I travel through 11 countries with my backpack and Christ.
