No, not really, but I felt like it a couple days ago. My friend from the race tagged tons of pictures of me on Facebook from many different months on the race. I was looking through all of them almost in tears. I was looking at pictures from Honduras month 2 when I shaved a girls head, and Vietnam month 7 of when we walked around selling flowers on Women’s day to raise money for a church, and a picture of when I gave my testimony at an amazing drug rehab center for men. Pictures from Kenya and MANistry month in Malaysia and our road trip to Singapore!!! Looking at all of these pictures brought back tons of memories. Most good, but some made me think. I thought about all of the times where I was in a bad mood. I looked at a picture and knew I had a fake smile and that I was grumpy that day. I knew that day the picture was taken our team had a rough feedback. Then I went back to the good memories and wished I could get them back!!! I would give anything to be back in Vietnam just to each an egg roll from the bread lady, a smoothie from smoothie lady and a doner kabob from doner kabob guy!!! And to walk the streets with all the bars and prostitutes and love people!!
I sat there getting chills after chills and wanting to cry. I miss the amazing places I have been blessed to have visited and I was very humbled. It also made me think about in THOSE moments, that I should have been more humble, and I shouldn’t have taken them for granted.
Life is too short to be in a grumpy mood!!!
I’m very happy with my World Race, I would never not say that, but I would do a lot of things differently. What I’m learning now, is to not think about the shoulda coulda woulda’s, but instead apply it to life NOW!!! Right now I am in Pemba Mozambique at a school for missionaries led by Heidi Baker!!! How blessed am I!!! Yet I found myself not happy for a few days. Well NOT ANY MORE!!! Looking at pictures from the past year has made me change my mindset on a few things. I never want to take advantage of the opportunities I have and the places God puts me. I’m going to be grateful no matter what and humble myself even more.
IF YOUR ABOUT TO GO OUT ON THE WORLD RACE:
Listen up!!! It’s gunna happen, your going to get mad and frustrated, but I encourage you to PRESS IN!!! Press into the Lord and His joy and happiness to get through the tough days!! HUMBLE yourself in all circumstances!!! If you aren’t likening the country your in, or ministry your doing, HUMBLE YOURSELF and know that there are thousands of people in America who would LOVE to be where you are right now and would give anything to so.
Press in!! Don’t waste a minute of this amazing adventure!!!!
