You ever feel so excited about something that your heart starts jumping and your mind starts racing with all the possibilities that your physically shaking with energy and excitement that you just cannot control. Well that’s how I felt when I got the call from AIM and they told me I was going on the World Race. I was in so much shock that I even asked them to say it again cause I wanted to make sure I was hearing it right. Now I know that seems a bit dramatic, but to me it was like getting accepted to Harvard or like winning the lottery. Let me explain why. When I was younger I went to a christian boarding school for troubled youth called Edgewood Children’s Ranch, and it was there that I accepted the Lord as my Savior. Ever since then I knew Christ was calling me to a life beyond the typical, a life of physical poverty but filled with spiritual riches. I knew at the age of twelve that I was called to a life of complete and utter devotion to Christ. Although through the years I became discouraged because I didn’t want to wait till I was older but I wanted to go then and there. God was telling me to be patient and wait on his timing not my own. So that’s what I did. I waited and prayed for the day that I would be able to actually start this amazing adventure that Christ was calling me to. As time went on I began to wonder though if it would ever happen, until one evening at a bible study group that I’ve been attending for a few months now. When it came time after the study session when we were asking for prayer requests one of the girls there asked that we pray for financial support for this thing called the World Race. She went on to tell everyone that it was an eleven month mission trip and that she would be going to eleven different countries to help those in need. When I heard this I felt God pulling me toward it. I felt Him calling me to go and apply for one of the other trips. So I want online and instantly got discouraged when I saw it was only for people 21-35. I felt so heart broken. So skip ahead a few months and I was back on the site for no other reason than just to check the trips again. As I was scrolling down the page all the way at the bottom I saw a trip called Gap Year. I looked over to the right and saw the dreaded age limit. But to my surprise it said 18-22 and I was instantly smiling like a big ole idiot. All I was thinking was how could I ever doubt such an amazing God. So after much time and prayer I applied for the trip and the rest as they say is history.
