Training camp: (n.) the World Race on steroids
I haven’t made it there yet,
but if I can be so bold to preemptively define it.. there it is.
I am beyond stoked & ever so anxious to meet my people.
And have a face to all those names I’ve seen as
I’ve casually checked Facebook for months now.
Plus, I could still be catfished at this point.
I need my inner skeptic to be put to rest.
These not-quite-strangers will become more than just eternal friends,
but my family, my confidants…community at its finest.
Understandably, I’m incredibly anxious & may totally burst
as soon as everything comes together.
Or, just maybe, before then.
Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.
Ephesians 4:2-4
I’m so looking forward to what the Lord has
for all of us together as a sqWad*.
God has been so faithful throughout this whole journey.
His love outlasts anything I will ever face
and He shows His goodness in every little thing in my life.
He is constant and unchanging
so I know my sqWadmates have stories
and things to share of what the Lord
has done in their lives along the way.
To be able to come together after all these months
and share our journeys together is going to be
so empowering and beyond incredible.
“Come like a river
taking me deeper
into the ocean of who You are
winding and stirring
Your Spirit my current
on my way to my destiny
I’ll embrace the journey.”
[embrace the journey- OSC Music]
So, here I am..
back to present life..
sitting on an airplane sipping ginger ale.
I can’t believe it’s finally here.
I’m almost there and time is about to fly by,
but I’m more ready than ever
to go all in,
no holding back,
fully embracing the journey.
I’ll be sleeping in a tent.
I don’t know how to put up that tent yet,
but ya know.. I’ll get there.
I’ll be showering via the lovely bucket shower.
Which may inevitably mean, who needs a shower anyways?
But, forget the physical factors.
I am expectant that Jesus will crash in
to take all of us places we’ve never been with Him.
“Take me deeper, deeper still…”
is my prayer over and over again.
I don’t have specific expectations
because you can’t fit my God
in a box defined by walls,
but I am expecting to see
redemption, freedom, and sheer glory
as we come with expectant hearts
to let Heaven come to earth.
“But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
Matthew 6:33
“It is freedom that Christ has set us free; stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
Galatians 5:1
*sqWad: no, thats not a typo. Every squad that Adventures in Missions sends out is identified by a letter. I am on W squad so we found it only fitting.
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