Hey everyone, this is of course my first blog. If anyone who reads this knows me, they know I am a talker, so blogging should become second nature, hopefully.
Life is crazy. It is a road full of twists, turns, bumps, jumps, a few ditches, a couple U-Turns, and many flat tires. I feel that in the past few months leading up to being accepted to go on the WR, and in these few short weeks afterwards I have grown and lived more than my whole life before combined. Before I started typing this I asked myself why that is, and what I discovered that I started fulling living my life the day I understood how to rejoice in life, no matter what. It is like optimism to the extreme, but it truly does work and is so relieving of stress and sadness. I am not saying i don’t have stress or sadness in my life anymore. I certainly do, but I now know how to rejoice in it, and to know that I am loved, I am taken care of, and most importantly, I am saved.
Here are a few aspects of this crazy life that the WR process has taught me to rejoice in.
- Quitting / Leaving / Losing my job. – No matter how you look at it, it is crazy. But in learning to rejoice in leaving my job, I am able to step back and not worry about the lose of money. I am able to see the amazing life changing opportunity I will have because of the lose.
- Breaking my apartment lease – A written contract that i agreed to and said that I would pay any penalty of leaving early. What, it isn’t like I am going to apply to take place on a mission trip that will last almost a year and will leave 4 months before this is over. Ohh wait. Yeah well, now I can add that cost to the list of fundraising I will have to complete in order to be able to fully experience this mission. But do not fear. Rejoice! What is the small amount of an extra two months rent against my amazing Lord?
- Selling my truck – For those who know me, they know how truly crazy this is. I told many of my friends about this and the majorly of them were more floored that I was selling my truck that the fact that I just told them I was going to live in India, etc. I love you Darby, (yes she is named) but I will find you an awesome home, and the money from you will make soooo many amazing things happen in the name of his kingdom.
Well People that is it for the first blog. How did i do? Make sure to subscribe and share all over Facebook and anywhere else. Donate if you can, and more importantly, please pray! Tune in next time for a little back ground of why I chose to do the World Race.
