As of today, I have exactly one month until graduation. That’s 30 days.
In 44 days, I will meet the rest of my squad at training camp.
In 82 days, I’ll be heading to launch and then flying to Albania.
I’ll then spend a month in 11 different countries.
I’ll travel with 40+ squad mates and live with 5-7 teammates.
I will live out of one backpack, with 3 pairs of shoes.
I will be away from my home and my family for 335 days.
All of these numbers have been spinning around in my head lately, leaving me in a confused haze that makes me feel like David After Dentist. I just can’t help but ask myself, “Is this real life?”
Quantifying these things makes them seem like they are happening so quickly, and I can’t believe how swiftly this season of my life is coming to an end as the next one approaches.
When I think about the fact that I’ll be gone for almost a year, experiencing new things, seeing new places, and building relationships with new people, it is difficult to rationally process exactly what this next season of my life will look like.
But it is the unquantifiable that I am most excited about. It is the immeasurable power of God. The unlimited possibilities to be used by him. The boundless opportunities to share his love. The unfathomable beauty of his creation. His infinite grace for his people.
Over the next year, I will witness God’s glory all around the earth. I will experience the global church and be used in ways that I can not foresee in expanding God’s kingdom. There is no way I can even begin to imagine what God has in store, but that’s okay. Because my God can’t be numbered or counted, and he is not limited by months or days.
During the World Race, I will be stretched and pushed out of my comfort zone, and it will be hard.
But that’s what makes it real. And that’s what makes it worth it.
This is real life.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. – Ephesians 3:20-21
