A Greater Calling

You were a light in my day. I swear the word light keeps coming up in my life, and it is generally directed at me. I generally just laugh and shrug it off, contribute it to how I was raised, and just the person I am, no big deal. Then through so many mediums we get glimpses of the bigger world, and how somehow, someway I am so much different from others here. My parents raised me in the church, to know right from wrong, and most of all treat others how you want to be treated, that I should be there for my friends anyway I can, and a listening ear is sometimes all someone needs. I feel like I finally starting to understand more, and more of what they mean. But the biggest part I am starting to understand is that they were raising me to treat others how God calls us to treat them. They were raising me to be like God. We can never be God, but we surely can be his hands and feet. He has made each and every one of us so uniquely. We are each called to something greater and different then someone we may be standing next to, or that best friend we have always known. Every path has it’s storms, but each challenge grows, and molds us into something greater. College helped define my faith, through Chi Alpha, family deaths, working at a Christian summer camp, and finally a fateful trip to Indonesia, that set my heart on fire for oversea mission work, in particular Asia. People have always ask me for more specific, Asia is pretty big, and I never been able to give them a concrete answer. I believe this is because God is, no has called me to multiple places within the Continent of Asia. Through the World Race I will have the opportunity to open my eyes like never before, to the world, build relationships challenge and grow my own faith, because we know that missionaries grow and learn just as much if not more than they set out to teach. It is not about getting millions to turn their life, but more than likely just a handful we each will get the chance to build relationships with and touch. When I went to Indonesia our leaders told us before we even got in the airport to board our first plane that we were not going for millions but for one. That’s right just one that we were in some way going to touch or change.


So as I start this process known as the WORLD RACE, I am trying to not expect because we all should “expect the unexpected” you never know what God is going to teach you, before, during or after. I am excited, nervous, and wide eye that he would even dare to call someone like me at this time in my life. I have days where I still wonder why he has me even considering something like this, but I can’t deny I feel called, so very called to this.

I ask that you support me in any way you can. My family doesn’t get this thing yet, I think they are still seeing the price tag, and me wanting to travel, instead of what it truly is, a calling that wins out over them. I want to spread the light God has given me, as far as he will let me, and in as many places as he will let me.
 
“What God Commissions, he also ordains” or “Do good works and the money will come.” That money is already figured out and he knows exactly where it will come from, I just need to trust. So if you feel like God is calling you to give thank you, and I encourage you to do that in any way possible.