I am sure you all are wondering, “Well, what are your plans for when you get home?”
I too am asking the same question and how I wish I could give you a step-by-step plan of what this next season will look like. But if I have learned anything this year, it is that our plans cannot even begin to compare to the plans that God has for us. I know very little what this means for coming home, but here is what I do know…
For the first time I truly understand what it means to live for Jesus, which looks very different from what my life was just a short year ago. The story of my life has been guided in a new direction and now it is time to live this at home.
The crazy thing is that I think I am more nervous to come home then I was to go on the Race. For the most part it has been easy to radically trust Jesus when there is little to nothing that is comfortable, but that is not true for home. It will be easy to forget what life was like on the Race, and fall way to all the distractions and comforts that ultimately keep me from God. My life will look different from the one I was living before this year, but I also realize that it is going to take some time to figure out how to live this new life in an old place.
On the World Race, I experienced a God much different from the one I was told I should believe in by my school and church. We as Americans have so much but at the same time so little. In our search for more material things we have lost sight of our true Provider. God does not live in our million dollar buildings, but instead He lives in the broken, poor, and alone…He lives in you, he lives in me. Our desire to live “the perfect American dream” has very much so separated us from each other and ultimately the Perfect One.
I have seen first hand the goodness that comes from living in real and raw community something that often lacks in most churches in America. As we accept and justify our busy {separate} lives we stop operating in unity as the Body of Christ. In the mean time we loose sight of our purpose as followers of Christ. But I know that this doesn’t have to be our fate. My purpose is to be a source from which God can create and inspire others to live in deeper community, one that is intentional about living the way we have been called to live.
So with that I close this chapter of my life, and open the blank page of the next. I have so many dreams for the future…and I cannot wait to see how God orchestrates this story.
I have a big vision for this wrapped into one ministry called Roots of Love. Read about it HERE. //I will no longer be posting on my World Race blog so please be sure to subscribe to my Roots of Love blog to stay updated.
Thank you SO MUCH for joining me this last year. Your support made every second of this year possible. Your prayers I am sure lifted me up more then I will ever know. I feel so blessed by how many people love and believe in me. I love you all so much and cannot wait to see you all!!
