Your journey will be your own. No one is going to have the same one as you, and that makes you different. I called you to be different, to walk a different road, because there are people along your journey that you will meet that are walking a path that you know well.
I think one of the biggest things that I have learned here in Santiago is summed up in the above statement.
I have spent my life wanting to fit in, to be a part of whatever crowd that I found myself in at the time. Middle school, high school, college, post college, and even here on the World Race. I wanted to be like everyone else and fit in. I think most of us have.
This has been a hard lesson for me to learn. One that I struggle with God over. I remember praying over and over again, “God, I just want friends.” I remember laying in bed at night begging God.
I am learning this: even though my struggle is different from others, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t my friends. It just means that they walk on a different path than I do. It means our convictions might be different. It means that the Lord might tell them something different than He tells me.
Over and over again, I am reminded that although we are all on different journeys, we were brought together for seasons of our lives, and those seasons were beautiful in their time. The encouragement that I get from people who are back home is such a blessing to me, one that often leaves me without words. Its amazing to me that God works in such a way that I seemingly always have an encouraging email on the hard days.
But they are my friends
Advice from Mase
