Alright here’s the thing… I’m a really indecisive person. I’m the type that when my friends ask me what I wanna do, or what I wanna eat I simply shrug my shoulders and say “I don’t careeee” until they eventually just pick something.
So that being said, second semester senior year rolls around, and I have absolutely no clue what I want to be when I grow up, what I want to study, or even where I wanna go to school for the next 4 years… But this past winter is when things started to click for me.
Shoutout to this kid at my church retreat who asked a question to one of the teaching pastors about the purpose of life. (Isn’t that quite the loaded question!! but her response was simple…) She told us that God commands us to do two things during this life on Earth. To love God and love others, but the cool part is that God gives us the freedom to do that however we want by using the gifts that he gave us! I mean that’s pretty neat and all, but it didn’t change the fact I still had no idea where I wanted to go to school and what I wanted to study because I haven’t had enough time and space to figure out what I’m passionate about. In order for me to fulfill my purpose of loving God and loving others I need to start by loving myself and discovering the gifts I was blessed with. I knew the only way to do this was to spend even more time with God. It’s obvious how much he has put into our relationship. I mean at the end of the day, He has saved my life, but what have I truly done for him…sing worship songs in the car?! Because of all he’s done in my life, I’m no longer okay with making him a second thought behind my friends, soccer, social status, even school. He deserves my life, and not just a part of it. After a few weeks of praying about all this, I decided taking a year off of school might be the best way for me to truly learn about myself and strengthen my relationship with God. So I sat down at my computer and literally typed in “christian gap year” on Google. That’s when I found The World Race.
This next year will be extremely challenging considering I’m putting behind everything I know and love, but I know that God will make it clear what gifts he has given me so that when I come back home, I can spend the rest of my life actively and enthusiastically pursuing an education, and then career, that helps spread God’s kingdom beyond the 9 months I’m away. I’m so blessed that I found The World Race and that it provides the perfect platform for my life and others lives to be changed.
God is awesome. That’s it.
