As of today its a little under a month until I arrive in Gainesville Georgia for a 10 day training camp that is meant to get me ready for a year of serventhood in eleven different countries.
I am really excited to meet my future teammates and see how we as a team will click. I am driving with my really good friend Jon, and meeting up with a couple of other people to get there. Its going to be a fun excursion (its only an 18 hour drive!). God has been doing a lot in me and I felt it was time to share some of it!
If you have been following my posts, or talking to me you can easily see that the past year has had the same theme, struggle and hurt. God has really been preparing my heart and breaking me of a lot of things. I wasn’t really budging for a while and even when I was I didn’t see the good in it. It was really hard for me to allow myself to be in a place that my name and success were in the same sentence.
This past month though has been a completely different story. I finally arrived to a place where I actually allowed God to free me of a lot of things. I have been able to find joy in life and that’s something I haven’t been able to do for a really long time. I have been doing things I enjoy to do, and even things I’ve always wanted to do, but never could get myself to so them!
This weekend Omaha had their annual arts festival in our old market district (our downtown). There were thousands upon thousands of people it was awesome. I love the city life and things like this are just amazing. Something I did though was different than my norm.
I love working and interacting with people its one of the greatest things in life, but its also one of the things I struggle with the most, haha that’s just God for ya! All the cities you go to you will see street performers whether they are dancing or playing guitar. I decided to sit down next to this guy playing guitar and singing. We chatted for a bit and I found out his name is Emerson and we just kind of chilled for a little while. Then I asked him if I could share a song and so I sat in the middle of downtown playing my song and someone actually put money into his guitar case. I hung out with Emerson from 5-11 pm and time didn’t even seem like a factor. It was so awesome just hanging out and talking to people and playing music. I had people ask me if I was a professional and I had to laugh because that is no where near true haha! There was another guy across the street named jack who was singing and playing guitar as well. I found out he also is apart of a circus and just travels around doing it. It was an amazing weekend and Ill remember this for a while!
I know this is the sort of stuff we may do on the World Race, and the funny thing is, its something I’ve always had a heart to do. This weekend though was the first weekend I was ever able to get myself to do it, and when I sat and thought about it God really had brought me such a long way. I am so excited to see what this next year brings, and I am sooooo curious to see what ministry God places me in afterwards, because I tell ya there is no greater joy than that of my Gods and what he has planned for me!
