When I was a kid, I was prophesied over. Multiple people told me that they saw me travelling the world. Back then I hated the idea. I also hated the idea of accepting any life advice from anyone but myself. I had a lot of hate in my heart when I was young. Call it my rebellion, a ‘phase’, or maybe my own personality, whatever it was. I was cruel towards others, and I lashed out at people, sometimes even to my closest friends..I was feeling completely empty inside. I was raised in a Christian home, went to a Christian school and yet, I had no personal relationship with Jesus. After graduation, I moved to Alberta with my family, and I started feeling even more alone, being away from all my school friends. I started going to church more regularly, got baptized, and re-gave my life to the Lord. Part of me hasn’t grown out of that stand off-ish way of life, and for some reason with girls especially, I have a hard time really trusting or befriending anyone new. Anyway, I discovered the world race a year or two after grad and felt so compelled. I wasn’t old enough back then, and having motivation for something so far into the future seemed to me, completely unreasonable. So I let it go, thought about going back to school, maybe bible school, so many different things. I never went through with them, because the passion wasn’t there. About a year or so ago, I went to a conference where I was again, prophesied over. My life seems to always come back to prophecy haha! They told me they saw me touching lives and changing them; embracing women in hugs. Those of you that know me, know how much I hate hugs; and how uncomfortable they make me. So that was a prophecy I wasn’t really sure how to feel about. So I put it on the back burner and forgot about it. This past year after giving up on the university idea, I felt God pulling at my heart strings. The world race came back into mind, and the prophecies about travelling and embracing women soon followed. I know that this will be difficult, I know it will test my comfort zone. I am ready to be broken, I am ready to go into the world and preach the gospel. Because, without Him, I am nothing. We are all nothing. I will be learning and growing for the entire eleven months. As I travel from Africa, to Asia, to Central America, and to the Caribbean..As I embrace my teammates, the children, the abandoned, the abused. The hurt, the empty, those in need. As I help them and teach them, I too will be learning and growing. I’m ready. Let’s do this!
