Preparing for the World Race. I don’t think it is possible. Preparing for the World Race does not mean getting your packing list ready and making sure you have everything checked off. It does not mean getting all of your vaccinations and raising support to make the deadlines. It is so much more than that. When people ask me if I am ready to leave in just over a week, I have no idea how to respond to them or how to explain the process of preparing for the Race. My brain feels like I threw it in a frying pan and have been scrambling it around in there for the past couple of weeks.
I don’t think I will ever FULLY process this experience, not before I leave, nor after I get home a year from now. Yes, launch and debriefing will help to make better sense of this all. It will provide encouragement and help provide me with a humbled understanding, but I will never fully understand what I am about to experience over the next 11 months.
No, I am not ready for the World Race…But I am ready to take on this adventure. I know God will never give me more than I can handle (even if at times it may seem so much easier to just give up)…I will continue…
My little cousin asked the question last night if anyone in the world knows EVERYTHING…I responded with “it is impossible to know everything” and without realizing my ignorance, he replied with “God knows everything.” He was right. I am not meant to know everything or to understand everything. In the end it will all make sense, it is God who knows the plans he has for me as it says in Jeremiah.
I may not feel ready, but I am as ready as I ever will be. And EXCITED as ever.
