So I planned to take about a month to get back home to Nova Scotia after the World Race. I first went up to Vancouver and then after two weeks there I headed east to Calgary for two weeks, which is where I am now. It is basically Month 12 on the World Race, Country – Canada.
However, the difference with this month is that I don’t have a certain “ministry” to do. I don’t have a “set-up sheet” telling me about the various tasks that are needed or certain places that need help.
This whole month I have been trying to figure out how to put ALL that I learned into practice. All the things that were simply my everyday life on the race now take a lot more work in my day-to-day life at home. Will I tell others about my life story even though it is not my ministry for the day? Am I going to help homeless people and treat them as Christ would even when it is not my task for the day?
I need to integrate all that became commonplace on the race and put it into life after the race.
I want to have the same initiation and excitement that I had in India.
I want to have the same faith that the hard labour I did was helpful and needed in Nepal.
I want to have the same confidence to share my story with strangers as I did in Romania.
I want to have the same honesty and community I had in Moldova.
I want to have the same real worship times I had on a mountain in Swaziland.
I want to have the same trust in the Holy Spirit to show up when I didn’t know what to say in Mozambique.
I want to have the same truth I had when learning from humble and driven Christians as I did in South Africa.
I want to have the same drive to get women out of the sex trade as I did in Thailand.
I want to have the same joy I saw in the people with terrible histories in Cambodia.
I want to have the same focus and willingness I had while serving in Australia.
I want to have the same flexibility to serve wherever I was needed in Malaysia.
It is a struggle transfering all the I learned and have seen into my life now. I am the same person who just travelled around the world. Rather than focusing on what I can do, I think it comes down to having God as my focus and the centre of my life. Seeking Him first will then translate into having these desires as the outcome.
That’s all for now.
Thank you for reading 🙂
-Anne
