As my last week in Africa comes to an end I’m sitting in awe of the amazing experiences I have had these past three months and thanking God for all of them. We arrived back in Cape Town on February 2nd and all 18 of our three teams moved back into our house. We spent the entire month investing and working in a very troubled and poor community called Westlake. The first week was spent rebuilding there community garden which had turned to absolute rubbish over years of no maintenance and upkeep. The next three weeks saw us teaching in the local primary school and running an after school program in the same community. The most amazing part of this month has been getting to build awesome relationships with the kids at both the school and the after school program. It is truly bittersweet as we leave for Nicaragua on the Third of March.
Now onto what this blog is all about, A Vision for my future. I think one of the hardest things of my journey thus far has been not having a clear and definite plan for when I return home in June. This has left me praying and thinking deep throughout many many nights. There are so many different doors and paths I could see God taking me down after I get home, but That door hasn’t been made clear to me yet. However, God did reveal something to me that was huge and gave me a great vision for what lies ahead.
Back in the first week of February I decided to sign up for the Cape Town Half Marathon because a good friend of mine needed a training partner and I knew this would be a really awesome, once in a lifetime experience. What I didn’t realise was how out of shape I was and how training for two weeks could only get me to a certain point that was nowhere near where I would have liked to have been. Needless to say, when the day of the half marathon came around and the gun went off, I gave it all I had. The Race was all along the coast of Cape Town and ran alongside the ocean nearly the entire time. At around Km15(around 9 miles) my lack of training started to kill me and the race became very HARD. Not listening to an iPod the entire time gave me great focus and a clear mind to just pray and talk with God. At Around 16km I told God, This is really really hard and I don’t even know if i can finish this thing in my goal time. And thats when I got the vision/desire for my future.
I WANT my future to be Hard. I want it to be filled with tons of hardship and insurmountable odds. Odds that I can only overcome when I rely and put my trust in God. With every hardship I have overcome in my life, big or small, I have always experienced so much growth and joy. I pray that for my future God puts me in situations Where I call on His name and that He is glorified through it all. When I crossed the finish line of the race It felt incredible. I felt as though I could accomplish anything. I want to live out Phillipians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.” Although God hasn’t really given me a glimpse of the next door He would like me to walk through I am confident that it is a door that will consist of challenge, growth, and joy.
Thank you guys so much for reading and following my journey! Stay tuned for Nicaragua! God Bless!
