20 days and counting.
Here I am, 20 days away from launching on The World Race, and I find myself living out the Word of God like never before.
I have sold most of my possessions, except for the few things that are sentimental that are being stored at my parents house.
If I haven’t sold it, I’ve given it away.
Im living with a friend out of a suitcase, and I realize, this is gonna be my life for the next year: living out of my pack.
I only have 8 more days of work.
Here I am 20 days away from taking the biggest step of my life, and I think to myself, “Is this really happening?” “Am I living a dream?”
A few weeks ago, I mentioned this to my teammate Carly and she said something amazingly true to me. She said, “We should be living our dreams.” “There is so much joy and adventure in that” She is so right!
So, in 20 days, I will be leaving what I like to call “Familiar”. Im trading my hot showers every day for bucket showers, baby wipe showers, and the cold shower on rare occation. Im trading western toilets and clean bathrooms for squatty potties and holes in the ground. Im trading my nice, warm, comfortable bed for a tent, a sleeping bag, sleeping pad, and the ground as my mattress. Im trading having my own space and time to do what I want, when I want for a community of 52 other believers that share my heart (and everything else I own). 
Im trading good home cookin (American style) for lots of rice, ugali, and things I probably can’t even name because I don’t really KNOW what Im eating. Im trading a closet full of clean smelling clothes for my new stinky wardrope consisting of the same 5 shirts, 4 pairs of pants, a skirt, some socks, some underwear, my chacos, a pair of flipflops, and a pair of tennis shoes that I will wear every day for a year. Im trading the mundane for the excitement of being in a new country every month for the next 11 months. Im trading going to the movies on a Friday night for holding orphans in my arms loving on them like crazy. 
And to be completely honest…I can’t think of any better way to spend my time or live my life over the next 11 months. I wouldn’t trade the stinkyness, the cold showers, the interesting food, living in community with the same people 24/7 365, getting dysentary and being deathly ill for all the treasures the world has to offer.
Im trading good home cookin (American style) for lots of rice, ugali, and things I probably can’t even name because I don’t really KNOW what Im eating. Im trading a closet full of clean smelling clothes for my new stinky wardrope consisting of the same 5 shirts, 4 pairs of pants, a skirt, some socks, some underwear, my chacos, a pair of flipflops, and a pair of tennis shoes that I will wear every day for a year. Im trading the mundane for the excitement of being in a new country every month for the next 11 months. Im trading going to the movies on a Friday night for holding orphans in my arms loving on them like crazy. And to be completely honest…I can’t think of any better way to spend my time or live my life over the next 11 months. I wouldn’t trade the stinkyness, the cold showers, the interesting food, living in community with the same people 24/7 365, getting dysentary and being deathly ill for all the treasures the world has to offer. My cup runneth over. I am ready. The Lord has equipped me and has called me out to preach His kingdom and to Heal the Nations. Let the adventure begin!
“Better is one day in your courts than a thousand days elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.” Psalm 84:10
