Real life sets in. I can only imagine the way I will feel when we all return from the 11 months, but now I’m kind of in a lull. A good lull.
Let me start from the beginning…
For me, the whole training experience started out kind of shakey. We ended up driving to the wrong location and were about 3 hours late for the first night. For the next few days I was uncomfortable and didn’t really know what emotions to feel. It was cold and we were in tents outside, we were cold and things were different from what I’m used to. Once I got over myself, I realized that the purpose of training is to break us down. We were broken and pruned and freed from things that have been holding us back. I have been struggling with the pressure of people’s expectations of me and my expectations of other people. I experienced that freedom this week. After the first few days, we were starting to get placed in our smaller groups, which was scary and I had expectations for who I wanted to be with. Once teams were decided, I was totally content and even excited about who my teammates are. It is crazy how much this decision was bathed in prayer and time listening to God. I feel like God definitely picked my team. 6 Godly men and women were chosen along with myself and we now make up team “Lit 2 Blaze.” After being broken down the first few days, now the WR staff focused on building us up to see our potential through Christ. It worked. Let me just say that our team is in love with Jesus 🙂 We were able to minister to the homeless this week and God showed me that I have things to learn from them and I can grow from peoples’ experiences.
Not only did we grow in Christ, but we also grew together by being absolutely goofy and fun with each other. We are a family now 🙂 During the times that I felt overwhelmed, we had the perfect balance of humor and joy! We have some crazy people on the U squad…”YOU KNOW!”…and I can’t wait to post more about how wild and on fire they are!
Broken down, built up, sent out. That’s the point of training us for the World Race. I keep being taken back to the thought that God has completely different plans for my life than I would choose, but MAN He is so much better at molding my life than I ever could be! The Holy Spirit is strong on The World Race and all the people involved, I can’t wait to take part of this crazy thing with people who, like myself, believe that God can change the world through a group of 7 people.
I wish I could convey to everybody reading this blog how much we experienced this week, I wish I could have packed all of you in my backpack 🙂 I pray that God will help me share with each of you the parts of my journey next year so that He can be honored and praised for all the things that He does each day.
This blog is all over the place, but I have lots on my mind and in my heart. I’ll try to make it more understandable next post 😉
Peace.
