So I have started telling my friends and family about my decision to do the World Race, starting in August!
& The most asked question after telling people about my decision is, “why?”
Why go to Third World countries? Why live without the comforts and securities you have here for a year? Why don’t you just start a career and settle down? Why would I want to be away from my friends and family for that long? Why do this?
These are all very good questions, so I am going to try and answer them for you.
I said yes to a year of discomfort and vulnerability, so that I can learn to truly be dependent on my Father in heaven, who I know will provide. I am doing this because I want to be the hands and feet of Jesus. When I said yes to following God, I gave him my whole life, and I meant it.
I want to give him my all because I trust that when my life is in his hands I am safe, loved, and meant for more than this world can offer. I want to grow in my faith and experience God, in a more real way than just attending church on Sundays. I want to help the less fortunate and live out the the bible in todays world.
I want to live differently than what society tells me is “normal.”
I want my faith and life to be so different that people wonder why.
That is why I decided to go out of my comfort zone & commit 11 months of my life to go on the World Race.
I knew that this wasn’t going to be an easy path when I picked it and this next year is going to be hard, but following God never is the easy path.
“But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:31
