My P Word
Shortly after training camp our squad mentor Jimmy reached out to us and said that he wanted each of us to chose a P word to meditate on for the entire race. Each of us was instructed to choose our own unique word. No two people on the squad can have the same word.
So, I prayed about what my word should be. Then I did what any good millennial would do, I Googled it. Here I am online scrolling through this long list of words that start with the letter P. There were a few that were early contenders like “parallel” and “passenger” (in my mind I was singing the Candice Glover song). Those words were okay but they weren’t great. I click to the next page and I see the word “path”. I immediately thought of life after the race and how I want God to guide my path. People keep asking me “what are you going to do after the world race?” And honestly I HAVE NO CLUE! That would seemingly be a source of panic but I am at peace that God will guide my path.
I then thought about life on the race and how dependent I want to be on what God wants me to do every single day. I thought to myself “man… this might be my word”. So me being who I am, I then looked up the definition of the word. The definition I found online was “a track left over ground by a human or animal.” My mind immediately went to the legacy I am leaving on Earth by being obedient to God. The giftings and promises that will be unlocked in future generations as a result of my journey. That was a whole new perspective. Within this word is hope for the future, security in what I’m doing in the present, as well as confidence in what I’ll be leaving in my past. I KNEW path was the word.
A day after I selected my word I suddenly remembered that when I did my interview for the world race almost a year ago I told my interviewer that I felt like God was saying to me it was time out for doing the next “proper thing”. I always did what was expected of me. After high school was college (duh) After college was graduate school (of course) after graduate school get a good corporate job (decent and in order). But God was saying it is time for me to step off the beaten path and trust Him. And now here I am on the verge leaving the country for 11 months with a heart full of the word path. It was then that I became so excited about the race. This whole story and every part of it has been divinely ordered and I am walking right into exactly where I am supposed to be.
