Today I find myself in Ocean City, Maryland on an annual trip with 4 of my best friends from high school. When I was getting ready to leave for college, after graduating high school 4 years ago, I was told my high school friends would become friends of the past and that I would never really hang out with them again. Lies. 4 years later I thanK God that I still consider us as close as we have ever been.
1 month and 1 week from today I will be the Best Man in my cousins wedding. An honor that I could not be more thankful for. Family has always been so valuable and important to me. My whole mom’s side of the family except for my grandpa lived within 5-10 min of me growing up all throughout high school. Then when deciding where to go to college I picked West Chester University partially because my dads side of the family all lived within 20-30 minutes of the school.
3 months from today I won’t be seeing any of these people or all the friends I care about in West Chester, at church or at camp for 11 months. I’ll be in Atlanta, GA preparing to launch on the epic life changing trip known as the World Race. My excitement continues to grow but I don’t know if I have yet to fully grasp the reality that I won’t be seeing these people I so deeply care about for so long. If this trip was just about traveling the world to visit all these countries I would back out in a second. I’m not going on the World Race to kick back and be a tourist in all these places because I would miss everyone way to much to do that. I am doing this because I know God is calling me to serve the less fortunate and because of this I have no choice. With everything God has done for us I must answer the call on my life. Thank you to all who have helped me become the person I am today and thank to all who have come along side me in this pursuit of God’s calling on my life.
