Since being accepted into the world race, my own race began, or journey I should say. I have currently raised $3,000! I have become humble as I have been lead to this point in my journey before the world race.
God has been pushing me a lot this last month with the idea of my own comfort level. I live in a bubble. A filtered, comfortable bubble. As a almost 21 year old, female, I work almost full-time as well as go to school full-time. I work hard for everything that I have but I never truly understood the privileges I have had. It is a Privilege to work, It is a privilege to own my own car, to pay my own bills, and to be able to go to college. I have all these things without fear, without discouragement, without having to doubt myself. The place I have grown up in, has given so much to me.
I have been reminded of how much I should be grateful for. The things I take for granted because I have always gotten up everyday and to do it. As expected of me. So what would happen if that was all taken away. What if all that I have known and thought I would always have was taken away. BECAUSE in that moment of being humbled, God not only showed me what I should be grateful for but also what he can take away. What would my life mean to me if he took what I treasured away? The truth I saw that day was so simple, and one I had heard but never understood until that day. Put faith in God not things or even people. Share and love them yes, but do not place your heart in them. YOUR heart belongs to another for eternity. As it was my choice to follow him, I gave him my heart long ago, but have I ever truly acted like it?
Papa has destroyed the bubble of ignorance that I had, and replaced it with eyes to see the world around with. He is sending me on this trip to show me the things I don’t understand and to teach me what it means to love only him, but while loving just him, that love will multiply and spread.
