What a week, what a week. I knew that training camp was going to be intense because well it is training us for a year abroad. I never expected to go through so many emotions and growing as I did this past week. Lets start with what I learned…..
1) God will show up….let him. And stop bartering with Him. (This is a personal weakness of mine)
2) Living in community is a beautiful thing. For real though, my squad is awesome and living in close proximity with them made TC even more awesome.
3) Forgiveness is hard. And sometimes it hurts. But letting go is the most freeing feeling ever! (There will be a follow up blog on this at a later date.)
4) The things I worried about coming into the race were all so trivial and unimportant. (I ate 3 meals a day and most of them were decent food.)
5) Sometimes I need to sit down and shut up……if I am constantly talking, I miss the chance to listen to my squadmates and hear their stories but I also miss out on hearing what God is telling me.
6) Giving up is for the weak. There were a few points during the beginning of my week at TC where I just wanted to pack up and go home and forget about the world race and act like it never happened. God told me no so here I am 🙂
7) Asking for help is OKAY! There were times when I physically, emotionally, and spiritually needed to ask my squad to help me. And everytime, they were there.
What I left at TC….
1) I left my old self. My feelings of not being enough. I am enough and I am here for a reason.
2) I left some anger and hurt….it is so easy to hold on to anger and let it consume you. After a lot of prayer and tears, I have begun to let some thins go….it is a work in progress but I am working on it.
3) I left my insecurities about myself. I let myself cry and grieve. I let myself have real and raw emotions in front of people who I barely knew because the time was right. Like I said before, letting go of past hurts is one of the most amazing and freeing feelings!
4) I left my old mindset of quitting when the going gets rough. I quit college when it got too hard, I quit jobs when I get bored, I quit relationships when emotions get too intense. I am here to declare that I AM NO LONGER A QUITTER. I will follow through with whatever journey God puts in front of me and right now, that is the world race.
Thank you all for supporting me through this journey. Yours prayers and finances are so helpful but this is just the beginning. I will be leaving in about a month and I am going to need more prayers as I say goodbye to America and hello to this new adventure. I also need $7,500 in my world race account by August 22 in order to launch with K squad. Please prayerfully consider donating!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Brittany 🙂
