Life since the race has been one crazy transition after the other. I tend to dislike transitions. It’s human nature to get to a comfortable and safe place with surroundings, people, community, work, family, house, etc and want to hold onto the comfort and peace found in that stability. Even more so when it’s been such a wonderful place of growth and joy and love and seeing God move. That’s the atmosphere I’ve been blessed to live in for the past 8 months. As I look back, this season was birthed out of a promise at the end of the last… “get ready to move into the freedom that I AM bringing you.” I expected God to move at His usual slower than I would prefer pace and that this was going to take awhile. But to my great surprise, it didn’t. When I got to CGA, I was pretty broken…the race broke me down in a way that got me to a point of being at the end of my strength. It got me to a place where I could finally stop fighting and surrender. And surrender was necessary for the freedom and life that God gave me over my time here.
Anyway, CGA has been highly transformational for me in a way I can’t even express and I don’t want it to be over. But I know it’s time to move on, I wouldn’t be satisfied in the end and the things that I have loved and benefitted from here would become stale. Some of you may remember my epic red cowboy boots that I rocked as a child; I wore them everywhere… My parents even had to take them off my feet after I was asleep because I refused to take them off. But as much as I loved those boots, and as sad I was when I could no longer wear them, their season was done. And it would have severely impeded the growth of my feet and been very painful to continue to hold onto and force myself to wear them. New wine needs new wine skin, new space to grow. So God has called me to move on. I’m very, very different since the last transition, and whether the next one is incredibly hard or another beautiful season where I see my faith become sight before me, I continue learning to trust that God is here and that He is good. That is the one promise God told me for the next season…”I will be with you.”
“I will be with you”…this is the promise God gives to Moses as he is scared and making excuses about why God has the wrong person to lead Israel out of Egypt. Later, when Moses has learned that nothing is more precious than the presence of God, he chooses to follow God around the desert for a generation instead of trying to lead them out of the desert on his own strength. He says… “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.” The Israelites moved when the cloud by day or fire by night moved – when the presence of God moved, they moved. I think that’s what God is trying to get me to do; base my comfort and stability steadfastly in Him and not on material things or places or even people I love. Not reacting out of fear or relying on my own strength. He is showing me His goodness, grace, love and that He is trustworthy no matter what else comes. I can trust Him. He provides. Even when I’m freaking out and trying to muster faith, He is still here, still powerful, still loving me and working His good plans for me because His love isn’t based on what I do, or the ways that i still struggle to trust Him, but who I am in Him. And who I am is His. And who YOU are is His.
So I’m following Him into the next thing that He has for me. Once again, its scary and I’m going to be in over my head, but someone once said life happens outside of your comfort zone. Life will be happening then! I’m excited to announce I will be headed back overseas for a couple of months…this time as a leader of 21 awesome 18-22 year olds! We will be working with an orphanage in Ometepe, Nicaragua!!!! Jesus also surprised me by blessing me with a co-leader who went on the race with me, was my roommate for the past 4 months, and is one of my favorite people! He has great things in store for this trip! But I need all of you dearly…please, please, please… Pray for me and my team! Pray for health and provision and safety. There has been a lot of sickness at this location in the past. Pray for the orphans’ needs to be met and that we would love them like Jesus. Pray for me to lead this group deeper into the heart of God and that Jesus would guide my decisions. Also, I leave in a little over a week and still need to raise $1,200 really quickly. Please consider being a part of what we are doing by financially supporting me as we set out to do the work Jesus has set before us. Anything you can give would be greatly helpful and appreciated. You can donate online through this blog (lynnreagan.theworldrace.org) by clicking the “support me” link on the left hand side of the page. Or you can make a check out to Adventures in Missions with my name in the memo line and mail it to P.O. Box 742570, Atlanta, GA 30374-2570. Let me know if you are mailing a check as it takes awhile to process so I can let my leaders know that funding is coming in and they don’t need to send me home! And as always, I’ll be posting updates and pictures on here as Internet allows, so stay connected and I would love to hear from you! Thank you in advance and for the ways each of you impacts the Kingdom!
Love, Lynn
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