Hey all… I have a lot of updating to do, so this is the start of a few blogs. Thank you for loving me and having patients for my poor blogging.
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Not a ton of people back home know this even though it happened about 2 months ago. Again sorry I know I need to be updating more regularly. But yes you are reading the title right. I did switch routes.
Here’s what happened:
I was route 5 (L squad) but now I’m route 4 (k squad). An opportunity came out for world racers to join a new squad that is going to be used as a documentary. To say it quickly there goal in this is to use film to tell Gods redemptive story through the stories of world racers and the stories of the people we encounter along the way. Side note: If you’d like to hear more about the goal and hope behind doing the documentary shoot me a message.
When I first heard of this opportunity I wrote it off completely. I thought cameras are going to cause people to perform and make this experience to become tainted. But for some reason the documentary route kept coming up and I didn’t understand why. So, I talked to some mentors and prayed about it and just said “God I don’t get why I keep thinking about this but if this is where you’re leading me please make it clear.” As time went on I moved on from the idea of switching but then I got an email that said “Joe we want to see if you would like to switch to route 4″….all I could think was what the heck is God doing?
What I discovered was this:
I started out choosing to do the race because I wanted more of God and I wanted to let go of the tight grip I had with my life and trust that God wasn’t going to just drop me. When I began to see that God was leading me to this new route I begin to tighten my grip. I was comfortable with route 5. But I didn’t join the race to be comfortable or to gain control. And when I realized that I was doing all that again I knew I needed to make this change. I knew that although scary and unknown God was giving me another opportunity to give up more control and drawing me another step deeper in relationship with Him. So now I am here and might not know exactly what’s in store for me, but that’s ok because it causes me to rely on God more.
So without further a due here are my new nine countries: (because they are still trying to figure out the last two) Guatemala, Nicaragua, Botswana, Swaziland, India, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand/Burma, and Vietnam.
ta-ta for now,
Joe
P.S. If you’d like to hear more about the documentary or why I switched shoot me a message. I’d love to share!
