As I write this blog post I’m trapped inside of our apartment with Kylie and Lauren. Sounds strange, but on the world race sometimes it be like that. Carly, Nicole, and Katie left for the construction site at 8:30 this morning and one of those sweet, sweet souls accidentally locked the doors deadbolt from the outside. Which means when the time came for us to go out and garden, to our surprise we couldn’t open the door. I even tried to reach outside the little door window and fenagle the handle with a spatula…nothing worked. We texted our teammates and our ministry host and got nothing, so instead of wasting this time we decided to pray for the community from the inside of the apartment (and write a blog post because y’all need to know what the race REALLY really looks like).
A fun thing that our team has started doing is, when we see something crazy or funny we’ll say “make a sermon out of that!” and then someone has to make a sermon out of the weirdest example. SO in honor of Nico, that’s what I’ll do right now:
Sometimes as a Christian, plans change! We were fully prepared to go out and make a dent in the garden today, but apparently the Lord had a different game plan for February 21, 2019. We could look at this situation as a failure because we aren’t able to complete the task our host set before us…but I’m choosing to look at this and say, “WOW, God looked at us and said that our prayer was more important today than anything else we could have planned.”
So…we gotta be flexible when the Lord is in charge. When you sign up to follow Christ, you also sign up to fly by the seat of your pants literally every. single. day. When God closes one door (HA, literally) you have to look around, because I guarantee if you’re following Christ there are about a hundred open doors around you at any given time.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. I’m going to intercede now.
