Still playing catch up, trying to figure out how to share
the highlights of this journey.
A couple weeks ago my “squad leader� title became more of a
reality. For one of the first times on this race, my journey, experience,
meals, lodging, struggles, they looked drastically different from those of my
teammates. One of our squad mates was being transferred to a hospital near
Nairobi. So on-the-job-training for squad leading was in my comfort zone, a
hospital. Who would have guessed. I spent a week with Team Special Ops: me,
Beks, Jacob (one of our alumni squad leaders), and Rachael. In the context of
the last two pieces of my heart shared via blog, I loved the time I spent with
them. I hate that Beks had to be in the hospital. But I love that I got to be
there with her.
I was blessed immensely by the time that I spent with the
Special Ops team. Rallying the rest of the squad, via phone calls to team
leaders, to prayer. Waking up at 4am in a hospital bed with Beks. Time at the
hospital guest house talking with Rachael, one of the other nurses on our
squad, about the balance we are struggling to find between taking care of the
physical-our job for the last couple years-and the spiritual-something that I
often brushed aside in my work. Enjoying time in Nairobi while we all recuperated
from the exhausting hospital schedule. Coming to a realization that we can
bless by receiving love. Reaching a time in this journey to stop and realize so
much.
Some of the “processing� that went on in the hospital, a
time and space that was allowed to me by whatever this “squad leader� title
actually means…
This “World Race� does not end when I get back to the U.S.
I’m not here to tour 11 countries. I’m not here for the reason I thought. I’m
here to be changed and bring change. I am here to be free and bring freedom.
This community I’m in is precious. This journey is going by amazingly fast.
Before I know it, I’ll be back at home, figuring out how to share this thing. I
will never be the same again. I don’t have time to waste. This isn’t a sprint,
but I’m gonna take this opportunity I’ve been given. “Bringing kingdom� isn’t a
cliché. We’re gonna do it. We’re doing it now. And that’s pretty awesome.
