This blog written by Chelsea Hoffman truly says what I hope to feel by the end of my Race!!
Dear Seth Barnes and the World Race Family,
This is a letter of complaint on my behalf for the past 11 months and how you have progressively been destroying my life and future in this world with forced community, eye-opening experiences, and contact organizations.
Let me explain… Before hearing of the World Race, I was headed to a bright and wonderful future. I was about to graduate and knew that I could easily find a job in my field or start my own business that would be sure to supply enough money for a comfortable life. I was sure to find a husband that had likewise aspirations and settle down to yearly vacations, once a week Sunday services, having some kids, and possibly even a bible study. I enjoyed the frivolties of life like buying clothes, having a nice car, and eating out often. I read the word daily and even gave the due 10% to the church of my bi-monthly checks. My life was easy because I kept the compartments of my life neat and tidy. Friends and family did not mix, School stayed in its box and above all God stayed in his compartment. I easily picked from the needed compartment depending on what the event called for.
Then one day, I was pointed to the World Race website. I found myself intrigued by countless stories of people all around the world and I felt this uncontrollable desire to meet these same people. I tried to suppress these feelings, but your viscious website with all of the blogs kept pulling me in. I began to spend all my free time, reading blogs only feeding the desire to go even more. I couldn’t stop it. I soon found myself signed up and heading for LA to launch on the next available trip in September.
Every month was a battle to keep my compartments tidy, and every month you and your organization’s policies of feedback and not sitting on your bucket was making my life more and more dirty and destroyed.
I write to you now, after I am able to finally shed light in month 11 on how deeply you have really screwed up my life here on this earth. There is no order anymore, especially with the God compartment, which is actually more of a sea that swallows up all other areas in my life. I now can’t function without telling people about Jesus. I can’t form sentences that aren’t revolved around God. I am no longer able to have an enjoyable day to myself without praying for someone in my head or having a God encounter. My friends, instead of stickin to their own business, now challenge me to be a better person.
I can’t function as a normal person, and I have you to thank for that. I now make ridiculous decisions in the eyes of the world based on silly nudges from the Holy Spirit and believe that with God’s authority I can pray and people’s pains go away and food mulitplies. I now no longer desire the things in this world like a job that pays and only ask for God’s will to be done. I have no money, no plans, and no worries, I am NUTS.
My future living the American Dream has been destroyed because of you. I no longer see it necessary to have yearly vacations and a priority to have nice clothes. I now want to adopt kids with having my own, and give away as much as I can instead of using it for myself. Mr. Perfect is now no longer luke-warm, but completely passionate not just about me like I wanted but more so about Jesus.
I have only you to thank for introducing me to the thing that would destroy my life. I only write you to warn yourselves and those like me that if you continue to show others the world around them in this same way that they also will be changed by being completely saturated in the Spirit and desiring God’s will above all else and their world’s will be likewise destroyed. I hope that you can live with your actions and their effect on those around you for all of eternity. We will all be there in eternity to remind you of the things that you have done.
