God has an entire life planned for you, including every day until you get married. And every day after. I pray you won’t miss out on the ENTIRE story waiting for one chapter.
A question that has constantly popped up into my 27 year old brain is will I start dating, be in a relationship or ever get married? Signing up for the World Race I knew that I would sign a contract stating that I would not date for 11 months. This is something that deterred me away from signing up in the beginning. I thought how in the world would I be able to fulfill my life’s plan if I took this detour called the World Race, I could be missing out on dating for one whole year. In the beginning I felt shame about this, how could I be thinking this? Am I an awful person for putting off helping others around the world so that I could date? Little did I know the more I opened up about this to others, the more I understood, I was not alone in thinking this way.
The crazy part is I thought my ways were better than His ways. I would have done the same thing that I had done for the past five years. Wake up, go to work, go to the gym, hang out with friends, go to bed. Wake up and repeat. I was stuck in a cycle and it was comfortable. But instead God had a different plan for my life. He wanted to give me the adventure and press the restart button. He wanted to stretch me, grow me, make me uncomfortable and help me work through my ish.
I constantly would say to people that I had surrendered my singleness to God. In reality I hadn’t. I would give it to Him and grab it right back. I was filled with anxiety and stress not knowing what my future would hold. I found a paper I created at 16 filled with a detailed plan of what my life would look like up to the age of 30. Seeing that made me laugh as some of it was true but a lot of it did not happen. But now I know that God’s plan is greater than mine. I trust him. The more and more time I spend with Him the more and more my desires line up with his plans for my life.
I know He has given me a desire to be in a relationship and I trust that He will do that in His perfect timing. I have peace about it. I want to use this time to work on my ish, gain a better understanding of who I am and how God created me to be. I am so thankful for this time and space he created in my life to understand myself and Him on a deeper level.
All of this to say- if the one thing that’s keeping you from signing up for the World Race is that you’ll have a year of singleness. Do it! Sign Up! God is going to do imaginable more than you can fathom. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity! It is one of the greatest chapters of my book thus far.
