Just over a year ago, we had training camp before embarking on this 11 month journey we call the World Race. B-Squad got together for a few days and had some trainers shake stuff up within us. I came out of training camp realizing I needed a good shaking to take me out of my comfort zone and realize where I was in my walk with the Lord and see that there was so much more growing ahead of me.
“Sow for yourself righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.” -Hosea 10:12
In another version , “it's time to till the earth ready, it's time to dig in with God.”
Training camp was to begin the tilling process in our hearts.
Break up ground of our hearts that God created to be a fertile place for seeds and earth, but may have become settled and unprepared for growth.
So we broke ground as a squad through prayer, worship, and prophecy and prepared our hearts for new seeds to be planted, plants to be nurtured, and new fruit to be borne and growth to come over an 11 month growing season.
And so with broken ground we were launched into the world for the new growing season of our lives on October 7, 2011.
[Month 1 in Guatemala seems like it was just yesterday.]
Up until now, the end of month 10, I came to the realization that there's another launch.
I don't remember anyone saying it at training camp.
Nobody told me there's another launch after October 7th…
What if, when we thought launch began when we stepped onto the plane to get to the first country, but the real launch happens when we step off plane after month eleven and launch into the rest of our lives?
It's the homecoming.
[8 Month Debrief in Kenya]
When we begin travel back to the states at the end of August, we have out final debrief and launch into the states as the new B-Squad.
We're coming home after an 11 month growing season.
But the growing season never stops.
It only changes.
The growing season isn't universal on all terrain.
The ground we step onto is the same good old USA soil that we missed while we were away, but the ground that we had walked on this past year has tilled and broken up the ground of our hearts.
We went out into the world to be world changers and in the process got changed ourselves.
As I write this blog I'm reminded of all the time and energy spent preparing to launch into the race.
The World Race turned into time and energy spent preparing us for life- one completely and recklessly abandoned for the Kingdom.
I'll never be the same. I don't think any of us will.
And i wouldn't have it any other way.
[We're here on the Indian Ocean in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania before we head off to Malawi.]
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Stay tuned.
God Bless!
-Dan²
