Learning to adapt has been a key part of the World Race. There is never really a set schedule, therefore, you need to walk into whatever you are doing with no expectations and learn to adapt to what the Lord has brought to you for that day. Although you may think you know exactly what you are doing God always has something else you didn’t even think about.
I have never been really good at lowering my expectations if we are being completely honest. I have always been the one to have incredibly high expectations with how anything was going to go. Before coming on the World Race, I remembered that I have this quality to really expect and know when anything was going to happen and I remember telling myself before I left that I needed to drop this quality.
The World Race is not a week-long mission trip where every single detail is planned out and every second hour of the day is used for a specific purpose. The World Race has a lot of wiggle room for you to ask the Lord what to do + go from there. This is something I have come to truly love about the World Race, the freedom to sit with our Father and have a conversation with what He would actually like us to go do so that we can further the kingdom in His way.
This week I learned to really just be present with the Lord + allow Him to tell me what to do this week. On Monday, the school was canceled due to a national holiday, so team Ekklesia took to ATL (ask the Lord) and decided to clean the base and write words of life for our entire squad. Again, leading a life with no expectations and instead just asking the Lord where to go and what to do.
In Guatemala, school starts in February and ends in October, so this marks the last week I will be teaching English to kids in Los Encinos. After examining the time I have spent teaching I’ve learned that we can never expect how our teachings are gonna go. I also never expected how much the kids would love us + be so grateful for what we were teaching them.
To sum up this short + all over the place blog, I just wanna say how grateful I am for learning to key skill of walking into any situation and putting the fate of that situation into the Father’s hands and to have no expectations on how He will form my future.
