I’m currently sitting under a down comforter, drinking a cup of coffee and eating peanut butter chocolate chip cookies (homemade from my mom whom I got to see in D.C.), listening to it rain outside, and resting in Draganesti-Olt, Romania. It was a long journey here but we finally made it.
The past week has been crazy! We spent time in Lima, Peru, La Paz, Bolivia, Cochabamba, Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Panama City, Panama, Washington, D.C., Istanbul, Turkey, Bucharest, Romania, and finally Draganesti-Olt, Romania.
We traveled by taxis, vans, busses, and planes. It was a crazy week of travel indeed. But it was also a crazy week personally.
Sitting in my hotel room in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, I thought about the past three months and what my race has looked like for me. I haven’t loved the race personally. I’ve loved the ministry experience, but most every other aspect of the race has been incredibly challenging.
As I sat there thinking about my last three months, I had a heart shift and lost my mindset of ME. My head and heart has been so focused on me the past three months. I’ve found myself so caught up in my circumstances and my feelings attached to those circumstances. I’ve been so focused on “working on me” that I usually overlooked how God was working in the world.
One thing I said coming into the race was that I wasn’t coming on the race to find myself. But I was coming on the race to find more of God in the world and in finding more of God in the world, I could only hope that I would find more of me.
After reflecting back over the past three months, I now press forward searching for more of God instead of me, for more of His heart. In finding Him, I’m reminded that I will find me. In finding His character, I will develop a godly character. In finding His will, I will find my will. His desires, my desires. His plans, my plans.
After all, this journey is all about Him and what He wants to do in and through me. Heart shift. Mind shift.
Pressing forward into Romania. Can’t wait for this month!
