I can’t believe that I will be back with my squad and headed to Africa in only nine days!! Its crazy that going on the race has always been a distant dream or a significant amount of time away and now its here and it’s happening. It’s been different watching my friends go to college to start their freshman year and seeing my brother and sister go back and start high school again. For the past month its felt like everybody has started their lives back up after summer and i’m still kinda hanging around until its my time to go. As much as i’m ready to start the crazy adventure that the world race is going to be, I”m also not ready to leave behind my home and my family. It’s going to be a hard transition to not come home and eat family dinners or see my family sitting on the couch. It’s going to be hard to not be at the farmers market with them every Saturday morning or to not go to Dairy Queen after dinner with my dad. Its going to be hard not to hang out with my Mom in the kitchen or go out to dinner with my grandpa. It’s going to be hard to not talk to my sister everyday or to not see my brother play in his football games. And I think its because I know its going to be so hard that I have had to really lean into Jesus and trust him so much more than I ever have had to in my life. This time before the race has been really slow and I have had a lot of time to think and reflect and pray and spend time with Jesus and i’ve been overwhelmed by how generous he is. What a generous God we serve. In my weakness, Jesus is there to walk for me. When I mess up, Jesus has already paid for my mistakes and invites me to repent and give my burden to him. I’m so undeserving of the lords generosity yet he still continues to be so generous with me. Generous in the way he loves and in his mercy, generous in the ways he gives comfort and security. Heading into the race I feel secure knowing that my God is a generous God and he loves to give generously to his children. His love is abundant, his peace is abundant, his presence is abundant. He has promised to never leave me and reminded me that he is my family. My squad is my family. So even though leaving my physical family will be the hardest thing i’ve ever done, Jesus has reminded me that he is my generous Heavenly Father and he won’t hold peace and comfort and love from me. Thank you Jesus for your generosity.
Also speaking of generosity!!!! I never posted a fundraising update (i’m sorry!!) but I became fully funded in early April thanks to all of you guys and your huge hearts and to the lord who said he would provide! Thank you guys from the bottom of my heart for caring about supporting me and for caring about what i’m doing. It means so much to me to have y’all along for the journey! Your support means everything to me and i’m so thankful that I have had such powerhouse people like all of you who helped me reach my crazy big fundraising goal! I couldn’t have done it without y’all! I can’t wait to see what the lord has in store for these next nine months and I also can’t wait to share it with you guys! Next time you hear from me i’ll be in Africa, ahhhh!!!! I appreciate all the prayers and am praying big blessings over all of y’all. Thanks again!
