My biggest fear is going home. I only have 4 weeks left of the World Race. I found myself at the beginning of the race so excited to go out and tell people about Jesus, as time passed on I found that I didn’t have the same passion as I did at the beginning of the race.
I, today am sitting here worrying about what I’m going to do when I get home, who’s going to really want to hear about my trip, who’s going to see that I’ve changed, and will I fall back into who I was before the race. I for now live in the “World Race” bubble. I don’t have to worry about paying bills, getting a REAL job, or whatever.
In the World Race you know where you’re going every month, for the most part what you’ll be doing every month, and know whom you’ll be with every month. You know you’ll be packing up your life every 28 days to a new country, you know you’ll live on $4 to $5 a day for food, and you know you’ll be thrown into a different culture 11 times.
I know now that I won’t have to worry about what I’ll be doing with my life because God has it all under control. I know now that I’ll have a place to stay and I know that I’ll have a loving family to come home to and they’ll help me as much as they can to adjust to America. I’d like to tell everyone that the “Hailey Burger” entering America in 4 weeks isn’t the same “Hailey Burger” that left America 11 months ago. I have changed and I’ve found who I am in 11 months more than any other time in my life. I am no way perfect, I am on a journey with God that I am continually trusting and striving to be more like Him, and less of me.
As I enter America, I ask that you’ll keep me in your prayers. I’m coming to my family, but saying goodbye to another amazing family. I have lived with some amazing people these past 11 months and I know that God has these people in my life for this season to grow me, push me closer to Him, laugh with me, cry with me, and love me. All I ask is you’d pray with me in this next season of my life God has for me, whatever it may be!
