I am the girl who once traveled the world & kept record of those experiences on this very blog-but then, without warning, dropped off the face of the blog scene leaving you all to fill in the blanks of how my Race ended.
During the nearly 7 months ( yes, 7– can you believe it?) that I’ve been home, I’ve been asked quite a few times whether or not I planned to update my blog. The most common complaint is that I left everyone hanging. Or as one man so eloquently put it “I didn’t know if you had died out there or not?!”. Well, rest assured I did indeed make a safe return to the states…I just didn’t write about it. I, of course, had intention to make some “profound” closing remarks or hit you with one final God revelation; but, once those plane wheels hit the tarmac at JFK, the whirlwind of life in America began & it hasn’t stopped since.
To be honest, if it weren’t for a few random events during the past week, this blog would have probably been left to the archives- collecting dust along with it’s forgotten companions. Within a two day time span, three different people talked to me about this blog- two of those merely simple discussion, but one slightly more significant.
Katie, one of my Powerhouse teammates, is leading a World Race squad with her husband, Billy, starting in July. During one of their training sessions with the upcoming racers, they met a girl. Through discussion, Katie uncovered that this girl was going on the race because she read my blog! Apparently the story goes that she stumbled upon the World Race website, clicked on a blog (which so happened to be mine), read through the stories of God working in incredible ways around the world, felt a tug on her heart, signed up to go on the race this July & the rest is history!
OK, before this goes any further,allow me to emphasize the fact that I am sharing this for no other reason but to express my excitement. I am simply excited at the reminder that the Lord uses me. He speaks through me. He takes me to places I need to be in order to be best used for His kingdom. I think I am often too quick to forget those simple truths- but this was a great reminder that we truly are the Lord’s instrument.
So that being said, I am going to “finish” this blog. I have a series of journal entries from the last few weeks of the race & my first weeks home that I will post. Trust me, I am not under the illusion that you have all been waiting with baited breath for this day, haha. In fact, I’m not so sure that anyone will actually read this. However, I do know that there are many people who supported me on this journey, people who prayed, generously donated, and people who walked with me every step of the way. To you, I owe a conclusion of sorts. But, most importantly, I feel that the purpose of this blog in the first place was to recount the lessons I’ve go graciously learned from the Lord. And when the Lord speaks, the last thing I want to do is keep that to myself. It needs to be shared.
So stay tuned, the Lord just might have a few more lessons for me…
