My life has taken some unexpected turns throughout the past decade, but it has been amazing to witness first-hand that God is faithful to keep his promises! I will continue to trust in Him as he leads me on an exciting new path. A path that will take me around the world!
I first heard about the World Race about five years ago and was intrigued but also filled with selfish wanderlust. I dismissed any further thoughts about the Race at that time because I was emotionally raw at that particular time of my life and I didn’t feel my motives were appropriate. But as the years passed, I was not able to escape the idea of the Race or information about it. The World Race was like a picture book in my mind’s library that I would peruse from time to time.
I have not been able to escape the idea of the Race and information about it. Nor have I been able to shake the feeling that I don’t belong here and that I was meant to do more, to be more. I know there is more to life that my current “this,” and I long for my true home. I wonder if I am suppose to do something else. I wonder if my desires weren’t really selfish, but were placed on my heart from God? Yes, traveling the world would be amazing, but being away from family & friends for a year, not so much. But that sacrifice is nothing compared to the greater impact of the Race. I want to be taken from my comfort zone within a country of entitlement and have my faith challenged. I want to see God alive and active today performing miracles. I want to be His hands and feet wherever He leads me.
I felt it was time for a change in my life, but I had no idea what that change would look like. I gave God the opportunity to move me, asking him to make the door he opened unavoidably obvious to me. (I was praying for a big, blinking directional arrow.) I began knocking on doors by sending out resumes and job applications to Ohio, Indiana, and Washington to see where God may lead. After three weeks of knocking and searching without a SINGLE reply, I finally did it. I applied to the World Race.
So, here I am, a member of the January 2016 Squad, standing at the beginning of an amazing journey. Sometimes I am joyous and excited. Sometimes my stomach is twisted in a nervous knot. Sometimes I am overwhelmed, and other times I am at peace. But I always have faith everything will come together because I know this is what God has planned for me.
As I sat down to dinner tonight, I opened my beverage and noticed there was a message printed inside the cap. It simply asked, “are you really ready?”
Yep, God, let’s do this!
Oh, and if you’re wondering what happened in my job search…
Six weeks and100+ resumes and applications sent.
The ONLY job offer I received was for a six-month contracted position.
A six-month temp job that ends a month before Training Camp.
Yeah…God did that. 🙂
