My beautiful people-
I have officially returned from the wonderful Georgia, with its red dirt and lush green trees. Take a look at the crazy people of G-squad I got to spend the week with…
Let me first say, out of consideration for future world racers I cannot reveal details about training camp but I sure can tell you what I learned. Ya dig?
Background: A majority of my teenage/college life was spent being drunk. Drinking to forget. Drinking to rid myself of stress. Drinking to obtain a state of oblivion and disregard for anything occurring in my life. This was a result of many experiences, including my childhood, and a misunderstanding of who God was.
Childhood: Growing up in a divorced home I was sent the message that life is not fair and people will hurt you (sound familiar?). This resulted in me deciding I was on my own therefore I needed to toughen up and accept my current circumstances. People were bad. Life sucked. I didn't realize in the process I had decided God was not to be trusted.
A major lie crept into my heart tricking me into believing that miracles did not exist and hope was for dreamers who weren't in tune with reality.
Overall, this past week radically changed my view on EVERYTHING. If you were to appear at training camp, you would be convinced everyone was DRUNK because they were acting so crazy. People were dancing, crying, speaking in tongues and being healed. Y'all God's beats were radically bumpin!
For the first time in my life, I was drunk but not off of a drink but the holy spirit.
I didn't care what anyone thought of me, not because of drink but because of His love.
Once I realized I didn't have to be tough and there was a Lord God who loved me and wanted to fight for me, I experienced freedom. When I realized I no longer had to be ashamed of my past, there was freedom. When I believed in God and trusted the supernatural and holy spirit fully existed in me, there was freedom.
Freedom equals overflowing joy or in other words, a state of spiritual drunkenness.
I gotta be honest my people, it feels good to be crunk for holy reasons, knowing the hang over won't be there to greet me in the morning.
"For the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires."
-Galatians 5:22-24
Over this past week the Lord is doing major work on me. The party continued when I found out my new team!
The team that I will officially traveling around the world is………6 amazing women!
We named it Team Isha meaning woman/bride in Hebrew. We thought this was suitable since it screamed of femininity, fierceness and beauty!
Left to right: Rachel (far left) , Miranda (top), Lynsey (top), Rachel (bottom), Shawna (far right)
The team is offical and I'm one month away my friends and the adventure has already begun. May you experience what it's like to become crazy off his love because once you do, nothing and no one will be able to stop you from praising his name.
Your dancing sister,
Ellie
