The world race is a crazy thing to sum up in a blog. It has changed my life and I have learned so much.
One thing I have seen time and again in my squad that I will always take with me is the focus on unity. We care for honoring each other and the people around us and being unified as a body of believers.
When thinking of unity my mind wonders to the first week when we all learned together what truly healthy community living meant (and tent living). When we used the porta potties and took some bucket showers. When we eat some camp food and washed our clothes in by hand. When we truly got the opportunity to be around each other all the time, choose in, and be primed in a unique way. It’s such a blessing to invite others into your growth and witness theirs.
I remember the 10 hour road trip to DeQuincy, LA, but how our words weren’t full of complaints but PRAISE because we were finally getting to do the service we had been hungry to do. I remember a short time of sweet rest in Texas that was the exact thing we needed.
I remember becoming friends. Not simply acquaintances. The days we had hard talks. The days we did the simple things like playing Dutch Blitz, hearing each other’s stories, and singing songs while Reed played guitar.
I think of my first team times with sweet team mariposa and the way they changed me and through time with them God revealed to me what it looked like to truly live in healthy community where you can trust the people around you completely. I remember going from telling my first team “I want to trust you but can’t” to knowing completely that they were a safe space and a place I could not only fully be myself but bring anything I was dealing with.
I think of the team change which maybe should’ve been scary or super hard, but I remember the peace in the transition. I remember the joy I had finding out who my new teammates would be and excitement to grow closer to each of them.
I remember some of our first team times in the bogus house on the world race base in Gainesville, Georgia. I remember being so thankful for my new team as I shared my testimony and they spoke prophetic words from the Lord over me and I got to do that for them too. God was for sure in the team change transition.
I think of all the friendships I have fought for and loved when it wasn’t easy. I think of the apologies and the hard days when the Lord showed me the not so good parts of myself flowing out of me when people bumped into me. I grew to later love those days.
It’s crazy to look back and think of myself month one. The Lord has brought freedom and so much clarity. The Lord has brought me deeper intimacy with Him and showed me that the more I truly invest in relationship with Him the more like Him I look.
Thank you sweet c squad for all you have done for me and taught me. I love you all so much!
