That was hard enough for me to do because I like to have a plan, but anyways God soon showed me something. We have a lecture series every fall semester here at LC and this year something the speaker said really stuck with me. At one point in the series, he said (paraphrasing) that if you don't know what to do after you graduate, you don't know what you want to do with your life, then maybe you should go on a mission trip. When he said that something moved in my spirit and all I could think about was the 11 countries, 11 months. I didn't even remember the name of the program. When I could get back to my room, I Googled that phrase and when I went to the World Race website I remembered it from two years ago, almost instantly. I was like, ok God, if this is what you want me to do, then I'm just gonna pray and let you work. To make a much longer story shorter, I applied and after I got accepted, I had some hardcore praying to do about it and let me tell you, it was super hardcore. The reason for that was because I was made aware of a possible teaching job at a local junior high that would be available this next fall, but as I started to pray harder about this, the Scripture from John 4, "Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest." and from Mat. 9 "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest." And Isaiah's answer to the Lord resonated in me, "Here am I. Send me!" Along with this, I could not get out of my head, if I don't go, who will. If I don't go and share the love of Christ, who will? I'm not elevating myself in any way, but if Christians don't go into the world, those of us that are called to, those of us that have a love of other cultures and such, then who will? After all that and much prayer, here I am going on the July 2011 World Race route!
I am so glad and excited and scared all at the same time to go on this trip!!!!!
