Al,
Remember when you used to sit cuddled on the couch and watch those videos for hours? The ones about stories of the World Race. They’d say ‘Cambodia, A Day In The Life.’ Remember how you couldn’t get enough. How you craved more.
Remember how excited you were when you got accepted? When you got your pack, when you met your squad, when you got your passport for the very first time. Remember how traveling the world was once only a dream? Remember how darn lucky you felt?
Remember how you never thought the Lord could pull this off? Remember how He had to raise $17,000 and you felt in over your head. You kept your calm, but inside you always wondered a little. What if i fail? What if this doesn’t work?
Remember how culture shocked you were your first couple months? How it was your first time ever traveling. How you ran around the international airplane thinking ‘there must be a pool on this thing.’ Remember the joy, the excitement, the gratefulness you felt? How alive you felt.
Remember how broken you were? How much you really didn’t know the Lord. How in your eyes He lived in a box. How much you had to learn about yourself, the world, and the God who created it.
Al, don’t forget this. Don’t forget the nights you stayed up watching videos and wishing it was you out there in the great big world. That’s you now. You’re here. You made it. You’re the person you never thought you could be. You’ve traveled to 9 countries, and seen more than some people will ever see in their lifetime. And it’s all because you gave God a chance.
Don’t ever let yourself forget.
Don’t ever stop giving Him chances.
Don’t ever stop giving Him all of yourself.
Don’t ever forget.
The dreams.
The doubt.
The excitement.
The shock.
The brokenness.
The change.
The impossible.
The here.
The now.
The God who did it all.
