Hey everyone! I haven’t written a blog in a while so I thought I would share with you guys my reason behind going on The Race!
If you know me at all, you probably know that I have always had a well thought out “after high school plan” which is: go to college, become a teacher, get married, have kids, and live happily ever after in my comfortable life. And until recently, I was perfectly content with that plan. The truth is about six months ago I found myself yearning for more… and I realized that while, yes I do have goals of getting a college degree and starting a family, I also have a goal to spend my life serving God and serving others. So that is exactly what I am going to do. Well you might be thinking “Doesn’t leaving the country for nine months put a kink in your plans? Won’t you be uncomfortable not knowing what the next year holds and what it will lead to in your life?” and the answer is ABSOLUTELY. But I am 100% willing to leap out of my comfort zone to follow what the Lord has called me to do. A couple weeks ago, my friends and I were having a bible study that was focused around not getting too comfortable in life. It is easy to get caught up in everything being perfect and comfortable and forget to listen to what Jesus is calling us to do. This hit me hard because I realized that the plan I had before I decided to do The Race, the plan that did not include serving God or others, that was not God’s plan. It was purely mine. The reason that I was yearning for more was because God was telling me that he had more for me than just MY plan. There is a verse that my mom has hung in our house that says “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps” Proverbs 16:9 This verse is a great reminder of how God can work through us if we allow it. So now I have postponed my plans because the Lord has something so much bigger planned. Although leaving my family for nine whole months is scary, I know that it will be so much more than fear because God is leading me into it. I have learned that taking a leap of faith in the Lord is uncomfortable but necessary for growth.
I would really like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has donated! Fundraising $15,800 is an extremely daunting task and it makes me so happy that people are willing to help! it is a reminder, once again, that God does not call the equipped, he equips the called.
