Overwhelmed is an understatement.
These last 6 months of preparation are becoming so real. TWO days.. I will be making the trek to Gainesville, Ga for The world race training camp. Yes. I will be sleeping in a tent in the GA August heat for the next 10 days. YIPPEEE
The life I have built in Nashville will soon be a chapter closed. written with efforts of working toward the American dream of professional success, running around with amazing people whom I love so deeply.
I take a step back and realize the monetary, materialistic comforts of this earth have never shaped my identity. when I leave Nashville these comforts will be stripped from me.
Identity is easier to hammer away than it is to define. Learning and realizing this is a tough pill to swallow.
I begin to write the next chapter in my story book: The story of an Identity In Christ.
This next season will be the most challenging, growing, faith reliant adventure. Leaving everything I know for the next 11 months seem daunting…The World Race is an opportunity to do something that most people dream of doing… urges to leave everything; escape and adventure.
These next 11 months are the furthest things from glamorous.
A life seeking the kingdom is not meant to be boring. God wants us to be filled with Joy, laughter, human connection, and community. Please please do not get me wrong- these next 11 months will not be all butterflies and rainbows. Life is not going to just magically become perfect because I am in an exciting new country serving God.
Stepping outside of a box of comfort will be weird at first- but there is no way to get better than to practice the uncomfortable. I already know God is going to wreck me, and piece me together. This kingdom seeking journey is leading me to abandon a life of comfort, and get freaking uncomfortable.
Bring it on God.
Show me my identity in you.
Show me how hard I can Love.
Show me what a Jesus serving community looks life.
Break me Down. Build me up.
Cheers to ten days with 60 of my newest best friends in Gainsville, Ga for Training Camp.
Cheers to the next 11 months. Cheers to the 11 countries I get to love on.
Cheers to all my supporters and prayer warriors- you all are loved and appreciated more than ya’ll know.
XO B
