Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!
So as I was thinking about my next blog and what I was going to say I realized that my first post may have been a little out of “order”. What I mean by that is generally the first post is about the world race and what lead you to pursue this. Well we all know I am not exactly the best rule follower so I guess it makes sense that my first post wasn’t the normal. So today I am going to take it back a step and tell y’all about the craziest choice I didn’t make for myself!!
So for those of you reading that know what the World Race is, its an 11 month long mission trip where I will be traveling to 11 different countries. We will live like the first disciples lived with the essentials and whatever we can carry in our packs. Yep I will literally be living out of a backpack for 11 months. Sounds insane but its also so very amazing to get the opportunity to leave worldly distractions behind and truly focus on doing Gods work. I will get the opportunity to share the love of Jesus with people that may have never heard the gospel before, and also the opportunity to serve. To let myself become less so he can become greater.
So when I first heard about the world race it seemed a little crazy and something I would LOVE to do but not something I was really comfortable doing. That night as I was going to bed I was saying my prayers and all the sudden I heard “go and make disciples”. Of course my first thought was umm what, excuse me? Then again ” go and make disciples” so logically I prayed asked God who he wanted me to make disciples of. After a couple nights of this prayer I got one location… Nepal. Again my answer was “say what?, What in the world would I ever go there for. I have never in my life ever wanted to go to Nepal, Greece, Australia, someplace cool like that sure but Nepal… nope never even crossed my mind. So I started looking into the World Race a little more and found out they go to Nepal. So onto some more prayer, asking God for guidance asking if this is REALLY what he wanted me to do. Clear as day I kept getting ” Go and make disciples and Nepal” so more prayer on the departure date and I got October. Well I was so pumped and excited I wanted to leave like ASAP like lets do this. God said wait…. and I got October. Now as excited as I was to pack a bag and hop on the first flight I was also TERRIFIED!! I mean October was a year away, what if I came to my senses and what if I really cant do this, that means I have to leave Sam (they really should allow dogs to come lol) and I am walking away from everything I have ever known to travel to third world countries with a group of people I have never met in my life! Then not to mention the daunting task of raising $18,000.
I then talked to my “circle” (the people that are walking the Godly walk with me, the people that I trust most to keep me accountable to Gods will) about this being a possibility… to say that were excited was an understatement lol. They were ready to help me with whatever it was that I needed.
So I watched and I waited for World Race to release the October routes and when they did sure enough there was a route with Nepal on it. So I did my application that night, did my interview a couple days later then got the call that I was accepted and I would be heading out October 2018! Now I am not going to lie the day I got that call I panicked, I even cried! I was so scared of fundraising and not getting the money, but most of all I was scared to leave Sam for 11 months! We never spent more than a week apart and hes been by my side for 9 years! I called one of my close friends and told him about how scared and sad I was to leave Sam. He said something that I will never forget and to this day is helping me cope with leaving. he said “Sometimes when God calls you to do something it requires a HUGE sacrifice, but in the end the reward for that sacrifice will by far outweigh it.
Now I don’t know what God has in store for me on this adventure and I don’t know how in the world I am going to leave Sam or how I am going to raise $18,000. But the one thing I do know is that God said
“Do not fear, for I am with you; for I am your God I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10
If God is for me then what can stand against me!
Have a Fantastic week!!!
