So I am sitting here in a hammock with my five-year-old friend Aron, and asked him what he thinks I should write my first blog about. He said in his sweet little voice, “I do not know Alayna!” Funny because that’s exactly how I feel. I guess I thought there would be some huge Ah Ha moment of the month where God taught me something brand new and I could then share it with all of you. That really wasn’t the case at all for month one of the World Race. Instead I am reminded that it is the little moments that are preparing me for the bigger ones. Before I left for launch I didn’t feel like God was teaching me much. It felt like an in-between season that wouldn’t amount to anything. But what He did was set me up with little moments, ones that I now look back on and realize were the very things that prepared me for my first month in Manipur, India.
What are those little moments you might be asking? Well, the late night talks with my cousin where we would dream of how our lives would change over the next year apart. Or, the sweet morning prayers with my momma to help her get through the workday with patience and love. Movie nights with newfound friends where we could just be silly and laugh, not having a care in the world. Late night car rides with friends that end in prayer for one another. Moments that I thought I was leaving behind. Life here hasn’t been much different that back at home. I am just doing life with different people. I now find myself in these moments with my newfound family, with people I have yet to know the path they have walked up to this point, and that excites me!
