“Hannah, (that’s my youngest girls name) you don’t know me and honestly I have no idea how I stumbled upon your blog. It’s one of my insomnia nights so it’s link to link to link and lots of God’s word via those links, blogs, etc. However, I know without doubt that it’s a divine moment. Your blog posts are exactly what God needed me to hear from another young woman. Thank you for being real and broken and honest and imperfect. Thank you for reminding me it’s ok to stand in that door and spend time with God while He works it out. For reminding me that settling into a flow is not where I’m called to be. I was in prayer for hours about all of this before I was led to your words of inspiration. So thank you for the heeding the call and putting it out there. I’m watching what you’ve got going on here and am about to learn about your race. Just wanted to encourage you to keep on keeping on. Will donate to your cause soon and am going to pass this along to others.
In Christ,
M—–“
I received this email on Friday morning, and it could not have been more timely. It’s so easy to get discouraged and give up on something simply because we don’t see the answer immediately, but God used this woman that I don’t even know to remind me that there is such a bigger picture than we can see, and that I HAVE done something, even with my words, when I may not feel like I’m not doing much of anything. I’ve fought discouragement every single day through this process battling the thoughts that “it’s not possible”… and then yesterday after church a woman (again one that I’ve never met) came up to me and gave me $40 to put towards my race. $40 may not seem like a lot to some of you if you’re looking in comparison to the overall goal, but to me that $40 almost brought me to my knees right there because it wasn’t about the amount of money, it was the amount of love and support that I felt in that moment, and the confirmation that God is in this. I need $2650 by next Tuesday in order to make this thing happen in January, and as impossible as that seems in my mind, I hold on to my belief that with God all things are possible!!!
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
