When you go on the World Race, you learn a new meaning for words you thought you knew.
Feedback
Squad
Team
Clean
Crunchy (G Squad specific)
With this new vocabulary, there are phrases/sentences that you hear Racers saying a lot.
“I haven’t showered in 5 days.”
“I receive that.”
**Sniffs clothes** “Yup, still good.”
“I can’t believe this is my life.”
I want to stay on that last sentence for this blog… I can’t believe this is my life.
It’s overused on the Race.
But I say it a lot… I can’t believe this is my life.
I was thinking that other day while laying on my sleeping pad, in a room, in a church, in Romania, listening to all the girls crack jokes before bed.
I was thinking that when I took a step back and watched the joy on a child’s face as my squadmate, Erin Jackson, picked her up and spun her around.
I was thinking that when my squad had a 7 hour layover in Warsaw, Poland, and we explored the city for a few hours.
I was thinking that when I walked into a hospital room in Nicaragua with 20 beds lined up right beside each other, and we started praying for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.
I was thinking that when I held Candy, a child who lives at a special needs orphanage in Guatemala.
I was thinking that as I shared my story of purpose with teenage girls in Honduras.
I can’t believe this is my life.
The Lord really spoke to me yesterday, and reminded me of where I came from.
How does a girl who…
- was abandoned by her father
- food was paid by food stamps
- got handouts for Christmas presents
- mediocre grades
- never took her faith for real
Get to…
- go to a private Christian college outside Boston?
- make friends, that at her darkest time, come together and pray for her?
- travel the world and meet, serve, and love more people in the Father’s Kingdom?
- have her every need provided for?
The Lord’s good, pleasing, and perfect will.
As I was walking back to our church/home in Pitesti, Romania, it hit me.
How much the Lord wants to use me.
My life is to be used to bring glory to the Father’s name.
There’s something to be done in this world that only I can do.
He chose me.
There are people that have been more faithful.
There are people that are smarter.
There are people that have had all cards lined up right.
But there is something for me.
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him who have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28
Pray. Listen. Receive. Respond.
As for, “I can’t believe this is my life.”
I’m going to try and stop saying it, and in those moments where I feel it…
Stop.
Quiet my heart.
And thank the Father for who he is and everything he has done.
Because honestly, I CAN believe this is my life.
Because I believe the Father's will for me.
Because I believe this is the way life is supposed to be.
Community. Prayer. Love. Greatness.
Yup, I believe it.
