I think the first blog I was supposed to write after signing up for this trip was "why go on The World Race?"
I guess it's time to write this.
To be honest, I don't really know how to answer this question. I didn't have the slightest clue what I'd be getting into when I signed up to go. I knew it would be filled with challenges and adventures, like nothing I had ever experienced before. It was a chance to escape the ordinary and allow God to take my life beyond what I could ever imagine for myself.
Thinking about all that this trip had to offer, the only thing I could think of was "why not go on The World Race?!"
I am now a month into The World Race and I am currently camped outside of a McDonalds in Iasi, Romania. It is 3am and I am on security duty while several of my teammates are curled up in their sleeping bags on the ground catching some shuteye before catching our 14 hour train ride to our next ministry site. My amazing leader, Michelle, and I took on the drive-thru by foot in desperation for some coffee. The person working the drive-thru was thoroughly amused as Michelle explained that we didn't have a car and that's why we are on foot. With all this free time I have been able to reflect on this past month in Moldova, where I experienced a new culture, new people, and a new me. Every day I find a new reason to be on this World Race adventure. Some days those reasons are centered more around my growth as a daughter of Christ, coming alive in Him and claiming His life for my own, a life of healing, transformation, restoration, hope, and love. On other days the reasons show up on the faces of the people I meet – the orphans, the alcoholics, the women abandoned by their husbands, the babushkas who's hearts break for their lost children. And other days it's simply being able to wake up to the beauty of a new place.
I may not have been able to pinpoint exactly why I wanted to do this, I just knew that I did. And I've enjoyed finding a new reason each day to be here. I chose my adventure and am having the time of my life!
