Hello friends, family, and anyone who was curious enough to stop by and take a gander! This is my very first ever blog post, so be prepared to suffer through more than just my spiritual journey in the next few months, but also my journey to becoming better about sharing my personal thoughts, feelings, and experiences with the interwebs!
A few months before I left for college, I found an ad on Instagram for a program called The World Race. The comment below the post said something to the effect of “Sign up for the World Race: Gap Year and spend nine months in 4 different countries while growing your relationship with God and discovering your purpose!” I was immediately shaken. Have you ever had one of those ‘God moments’ where you get the tingles all over, and you just feel immense peace throughout your soul? This was one of those times. It was a super intense feeling of belonging to something that I knew nothing about. So I spent the next 20 or so minutes exploring the website, and looking over the blogs of some of the current Racers. The more I read about this program, and their mission to spread the word and love of Jesus Christ to literally the four corners of the world, the more I knew this is what I needed to do.
I shared the link with my mom, and she told me how insanely cool it would be to do this, but I needed to chill out, take a breath, and realize that maybe I was just anxious about leaving for college so I was looking for a way out. I am definitely prone to impulsive decisions, so I agreed and just kind of forgot about the tingles that had ran down my spine a few moments before. But, like with every God-given thing, I could not get the World Race out of my head. It was constantly popping up on my social media feed, and would fill my mind whenever I would wonder about what my future held for me, and finally, after months of praying and listening to hear if this was something I should do, I applied for the World Race: Semesters. I filled out the written application, had a super intimidating interview (it actually wasn’t that bad I’m just super overdramatic), and then accidentally got told that my application was accepted! So now, instead of spending my first month of summer at 4-H camp like I have every summer since I was 8, I am headed off to Nepal to share the overwhelming, never ending, reckless love of God! (if you’ve never heard it before, check out “Reckless Love” by Cory Asbury! Seriously my favorite worship song!)
While I’m terrified of doing or saying the wrong thing in a very unfamiliar country, I am humbled and absolutely ecstatic to learn more about myself, and my faith while hiking through the Himalayas. I ask for your support through, most importantly, prayers that God will take this time to create in me a solid spiritual foundation as I continue into the very scary, very overwhelming next chapters of my life!
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much love,
Grace
