PARENT VISION TRIP
In 6 days my parents come to see me and see what the Lord is doing here in Ecuador.
Let me tell you how I feel about all of that.
I don’t really know.
I am excited. I am anxious. I am overwhelmed. I am nervous. I am stressed. I am happy. I am all the things.
I haven’t seen my parents in 7 months and I am a changed person. I am no where near who I was even 3 months ago let alone 7 months ago. I am more mature, more independent, more self aware, smarter, wiser, and more patient and calm. Who my parents see me as and still still talk to me as… is the girl they sent off 7 months ago. When they see me here they will recognize my physical body but not my emotional body. I am new and different and changed and grown.
They are going to be entering my world. My home. My peace. My space. My journey. They will be able to see my pride and joy and hope and life and I am so excited for that. They will get to experience what I experience and love what I have come to love. That will be really sweet.
They will get to watch me do me. For the first time in my life they are going to be taking after me and following my lead and I am excited to push them in that and take on that new role. I will get to teach them. I will get to show them. This is the first time I will get to take the lead and make the roles reversed.
The Lord is going to push them. They aren’t even halfway ready for some of the ways God is going to wreck them on this trip. They are going to be pushed and molded and moved and called upon and called higher and pushed deeper and completely will have to pull back there shell.
I will be able to for the first time spend time with them in a new stage of my life… adulthood. No longer am I living in there house under their rules, I am living on my own starting a new relationship with them. We are now starting to build a new and changing relationship that I am really excited about. They will get to watch me take charge of my new self and they will get to help build this new stage of my life with me.
They will get to spend quality time with me where I will get to explain parts of me that I now understand or where we can talk about things that might have never been brought up before. We will get to talk and bond and start a new page in Ecuador.
They will get to spend time with other parents that have been walking this journey with them too. They will have people that finally understand them and will get to pour into them as they pour into them also.
My Squadmates and my parents will finally get to meet eachother. After months of introducing these people over video and phone calls… they will get to meet the people that have become my family! My literal family. These people have created me into who I am today and I am nervous to merge my home life with my race life but I pray it will be a sweet time.
I am very expectant and excited to see what the Lord is going to do in this week.
I pray he opens hearts to share things that will mend relationships. I pray he will open minds to step into things they are uncomfortable with. I pray hearts are changed all together. I pray racers can have a peace when their parents arrive and I prayed parents will have an understanding when they arrive. I pray for the ministries we will be working with for that week. I pray for he people we come in contact with. I prayer for a mighty force to come and wreck the whole city of Quito for that week.
And I want to ask you all to pray with me about all of this because if I have learned even just one thing from being on the World Race… it’s that the Lord moves when we ask him to move with full confidence and full faith.
Thank you for reading and I will be posting a part two AFTER PVT!! Love y’all!!
