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After sitting at a café and writing emails asking for prayer and encouragement, I went back to our house and took some time to wind down for the night. The emails I was sending were pertaining to making a decision on whether or not to continue the race or go home now and prepare what the Lord has next for me beginning in January. Do I stay on the race and only have 3 weeks to prepare moving to another country for who knows how long? Or do I leave now before I am fully funded and spend the next 5 months at home preparing, spending time with family, and gathering support for this new opportunity? As I went through my movies to watch while winding down, I came across Facing the Giants.  At one point in the movie the main character who is a football coach asks a player on the football team to participate in an exercise in front of the whole team. The player is asked to carry another player on his back to the 50 yard line by crawling on his hands and not letting his knees touch the ground. The coach blind folds his player so that he won’t know where he is in the process of reaching the goal.  The coach pushes the player and tells him to not give up…don’t give up until you have nothing left…and even then keep pushing.
this is a clip of the movie

In that moment while watching this small part of the movie the Lord was speaking to me in so many ways. Candice…I’m not going to show you fully what is next because you need to focus on what you are doing right now in this moment. I want you to keep pushing and when you ask me if you are there yet, I’m going to tell you don’t worry about the goal you think you have…keep pushing until I take the blindfold off of you. I felt like these were the Lord’s words to me tonight.

In the clip, the player keeps yelling it’s too hard…it hurts too bad… but the coach said ITS NOT TOO HARD and I KNOW IT HURTS but you gotta keep going!! The Lord keeps saying to me DON’T TELL ME ITS TOO HARD BECAUSE ITS NOT and I KNOW IT HURTS but pushing through the pain produces better outcomes and more fruitful results.
By the end of the clip I was in tears saying THANK YOU LORD…yes you are right it hurts and I do want to know where I am in the journey but by you keeping that from me right now, I am benefiting in ways I can’t see until I have reached the goal line.
The Lord has also placed people in my life lately to be that voice I need when I think I can’t heard his voice. I’ve been given a friendship with a person who makes it a point to tell me all the time that I can do this… he tells me how important it is for me to finish this thing ‘til the end because the Lord has so much planned for me these next 5 months. Go Team Candice is what I hear often from him and so many more words of encouragement that keep me going from day to day. I know people believe in me back home but it always helps when somebody you really care about and love tells you they are proud of you and that the Lord has amazing things planned and all I have to do is keep following Him. I can’t tell you how much of a boost I get when my best friend’s mother tells me she is proud of what I am doing and the choice I’m making to follow the Lord…or when I get an email from a lady at our church telling me how much she loves me and prays for me constantly about certain things. Everyone needs encouragement from people they love.