James 1:2-3
What a thought eh?! I know you all can relate to feeling of hiking uphill and how at points you question if you have the capacity to summit.
This is how I would compare the last week and even the month of February. As the Race is fast approaching, I continue to look at the practical side of fund-raising. As of now, I have $2000 in support. I need $7000 by mid June and then the full $16,500 by January 2016. I look at this continually as I ascend the mountain. I am out of breath and have doubts if I have the capacity to summit.
Apart from my financial concerns, in the past week, I received news that there was lack of interest in my original Route five in July. They told us we had a couple days to reflect and decide a new route to go on. I quickly decided Route three with little hesitation. I unfortunately heard back that I was on a waiting list for this Route. I became easily worked up as I wasn’t guaranteed a spot on the July departure date. This made me start reflecting on routes in September.
I continued to send emails to coordinators of the World Race to check in if there were openings for Route three. They continued to say I was on the waiting list. It was only until this afternoon that a spot opened up and I was confirmed on the Route.
I have stopped to see God’s faithfulness. I had become so concerned about the uncertainty before me that I failed to persevere with thanksgiving the hike that God has planned for me. Out of the past questionable days, God has opened the door for Route three. My Route now is ~ India, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Botswana, Swaziland, South Africa, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
I am looking forward to what God has in store, the people I will meet and diversity of countries.
As I have been gifted with a new route, successfully persevering against another curve ball , I ask you as supporters to pray for provision. I ask you to pray that funding will come in and that the World Race will come to fruition financially. I pray that I will continue to breath, persevere and realize that I have the strength to ascend this Mountain. God is meeting me where I am at and He is going before me on this journey.
So I continue on. Step by step. Towards the summit.
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves”
Sir Edmund Hillary
