Last night was the first good night sleep I have had in almost a week. So restful and dreamless. It was a supernatural sleep. The direct result of the prayers of my team and I before I went to bed last night. Today I woke up refreshed. On our walk to school this morning I was jamming out to my music, thinking about home, the rest of the Race, and just enjoying the peace. With my music on shuffle, and the fact that I have a very eclectic mix of music on my ipod, I was very happy when “ The Great Escape” by Boys like Girls came on. I have always liked this song, and just the spirit of adventure that permeates through it. Just a feeling of not caring what others think and of really living your life. There is a line that says “ We’ll scream loud at the top of our lungs, and they’ll think it’s just cause we’re young. But we’ll feel so alive.” That has always been one of my favorite lines. I always picture a group of my friends and I standing on the beach just screaming and then busting up laughing. As I listened to the wong I wondered to myself if the Race was my big adventure in life and if in 3 ½ months I would have to go back to normal life forever.
I was in that moment that I felt God whisper “ This is just the beginning.”
My adventure doesn’t end in December, it merely continues. Last month, July 19th to be exact, God asked me a profound question. I was musing, to myself, about watching a movie or doing something equally as pointless just because someone else had done it. I do that a lot. God asked me “ Why do you want the same experiences as everyone else, when I have specific experiences for you to live?” Wow, woah, WHAT?!? Well with this new tidbit of information, that my adventure isn’t ending in three or so months, I guess that would make sense. I guess that makes sense then that this is just the beginning for me. My adventure doesn’t end when my feet land on American soil. It merely continues. It will be time for a new setting, different characters, new challenges to face, and new lessons to learn, but it will all be overseen by the same God. So why would I expect this adventure to end in December? God doesn’t need me to be all over the world to me an adventure. This next one is just going to look different, but it will still be from Him. So as this chapter of the adventure begins to come to a close I will soak up every last minute of it. I still have so much to learn these next few months to prepare me for the next chapter. But my adventure, the life God has called me to, that is in no way ending at the end of the Race.
No, it is just beginning!
