“Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
~Psalm 90:12
Hi there! Welcome to very first official blog post for The World Race! I’m so excited that you’re here, and even more excited to see all that God is going to do both in and through myself and my entire support team (that means YOU!) over the course of my WR adventure…including these next few months that I’ll be spending right at home in Charlotte, NC fundraising, working, and preparing for this incredible journey! Speaking of which, today marks a very exciting time in my countdown to the WR – as of today we are 100 days out from my launch month of September 2014!!
In 100 days (approximately – our exact departure date is TBA), I will be embarking on the adventure of a lifetime, and I am completely STOKED.
But somehow, that phrase causes me to pause for moment. It seems as though I find myself calling everything “the adventure/event/trip/summer, etc…of a lifetime.” Similarly, one of my closest friends and I have a special acronym for those days that just seem particularly spectacular – BDE (Best Day Ever) – which we have most definitely used to describe more than just one day, thus robbing all meaning from the word “best.” All of this begs the question: by what standards do we deem something the be the ‘best’ of its kind to ever cross the path of our lifetimes?
Personally, I don’t think I could ever sufficiently answer that question. In fact, the more I think about it…I don’t believe that there’s any possible way to fully answer that question, except to not answer it at all. Because how can we possibly limit the things that make every moment of our lives uniquely remarkable to a neat and orderly list that we could carry around like a score sheet, assigning grades to our life experiences as though each day has to earn its place in the storybook of our lives? Instead, I want to choose contentment, joy, and gratitude for every adventure that this life takes me on – including, but by no means limited to, The World Race.
This choice sits well with my soul, too. Psalm 90:12 is a prayer that God would remind us frequently to cherish each of our days because they are few, and this is how we will win a wise heart. I want to have a wise mind (why else would I have gone to college?), but more than that, I desire a wise heart.
“In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished- a life without heart is not worth living. For out of this wellspring of our soul flow all true caring and all meaningful work, all real worship and all sacrifice.” (Brent Curtis and John Eldredge)
So whether I’m sitting in my apartment typing away on a blog that I’m not sure anyone will read, or dancing with orphans halfway across the world from all things familiar and comfortable…I want to live each day like it’s the Best Day Ever and treat every experience as though it’s the adventure of a lifetime!
