Hello again finally! 
As you can probably figure out, I am currently NOT on the January Route for the World Race. After missing my first financial deadline by a lot, I quickly became overwhelmed and discouraged that this wasn’t the path God had designed for me. So instead of looking to find a solution to the problem, I tried my best to avoid thinking about the race and seemed to consume my time with everything else I could.
Completely exhausted and worn down after a long month of substitute teaching, personal training, and reflecting from the loss of a dear family member, I fell apart. This feeling of emptiness and longing for something more was all too familiar and the exact reason why I joined the World Race in the first place. Everything about the trip excites me, awakens my soul even. How could I have given up so easily?
I proceeded to ask myself these questions…
- How much does this trip really mean to me? If I’m going to ask for a collective total of over $16,000 in support money, I need to believe wholeheartedly that this is what I am supposed to be doing, and that I am passionately following God’s will.
- How will I ever be able to fundraise that much money in such little time??
- Am I really ready to leave behind everything I know…my family and friends, my job & financial stability, my car, my bed, my clothes, running water, delicious American food & fresh produce, the San Diego sunshine, for 11 WHOLE MONTHS????
It’s a lot to process.
I began to think about the all of the men, women, and children caught in poverty and crimes of human trafficking and forced prostitution, not to mention the unfathomable number of innocent souls suffering with HIV/AIDS around the world and the abandoned and starving orphans in desperate need of love and attention. The questions I previously asked myself dissipated. If I could bring positive light and hope into even 1 of these lives, it would all be worth it to me. A new inspired question arose…how many lives can I impact with God’s infinite power and righteousness behind me in ONLY 11 MONTHS?!
That is the question I’m set on finding the answer to. Enough messing around!
I write to you now more determined and confident than ever that God has been preparing me my entire life for this journey, and He knew that there were things I needed to go through over the last 6 months to be ready for this incredible journey. I can’t wait to see how God uses the many gifts he’s blessed me with to carry out His work and chase my dream of making a difference.
I am now preparing to leave for my trip in July, and will be following a whole new route across the world. I will be serving in Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, India, Nepal, China, and Mongolia. I will be updating my blogs regularly throughout the next year and sending out support letters to friends and family. In the meantime, please continue to pray for me as I allow God to lead me down this amazing path and to trust that He will provide for everything I need.
In Love,
Becca
