On September 11th I received the wonderful news of my acceptance to The World Race.
Sitting in the car with the engine rumbling at my feet, I was trying to manage three ecstatic and extremely perky pups. Olivia: a two year old, intelligent pure bred Husky, her sister Sophia: a one and a half year old Pitbull rescue and my little old lady Emma: a six year old American Bulldog, anxious to celebrate her birthday.
My roommate, with her tight, curly and slightly afro hair was doing her best to get us to Fleet Peeples Park, a drive that takes a solid 35 minutes. This is definitely something that puppies as excited as ours were, have a hard time wrapping their heads around.
In the midst of all this chaos, arriving at every red light, making sure none of the ladies hopped out the windows and trying to navigate with a half broken iPhone screen, my phone rang. Now, it didn’t actually ring because my phone does not have a ringer nor does it actually vibrate either. In fact, if I hadn’t been looking right at it, the phone call would have passed right through my finger tips and straight to voice mail. But it didn’t, it looked right at me with the words: The World Race!
I cried. I cried and screeched and raised my arms up in the air, phone in hand, thanking God for the gift he had just given me. Of course, I hit both hands pretty hard on the ceiling of the car but it didn’t matter because I was immediately relieved and so grateful.
I tend to be a control freak, I prefer tasks to be done a certain way at a certain time to my knowledge. This was something I had absolutely no control over, I had to give my full trust and faith in God. Same goes with this blog and the fundraising letter that I wrote today. I’m not much of a writer and I stared at my screen for about 45 minutes before I turned to my bible and found Psalm 62:8.
“O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge.”
The words just started pouring out, straight out of my heart, through Him and onto the screen. I’ve been learning to rest my heart on Him, to allow what will happen to simply happen and to relay any concerns I have through prayer, knowing that He will always provide.
