This month the Lord has been speaking to me. He has probably been speaking to me every day of my life but the last few weeks I have been more intentional to listen to what He has to say.
The biggest thing I think I have heard from the Lord is about loving people. I feel like I do a pretty good job of loving people. I love working with kids and students. I love hanging with the guys in my team. I love my squad. I love Africa. I love the word love. I read the book Everybody, Always this month by Bob Goff. It talks a lot about loving people the way Jesus did. In reading this I was able to see the way I succeed in loving people, but I also saw many ways I could improve in how I love others. A big thing I can do is to love those who are different than me. I have a hard time with people who think differently, or act differently than I do. The Lord talked to me a lot about ways that I can love those people. Living abroad with the goal to find ways to love people who are different every day makes it easy to love those who are different. I need to translate this for when I get back home. This is a conversation that is still fluid with the Lord.
Another thing that God and I have been talking about recently is my life after the race. The past five months have flown by. I can’t believe on Tuesday we are flying back to South Africa for debrief and potentially team changes. It seems like yesterday I was sitting in China on our fifteen-hour layover eating ramen with Jacob. Time really does fly when you’re having fun. With that being said, I don’t expect things to slow down any time soon. With that being said, I have no idea what I am going to do when I get home from the World Race. I know what I would like to do. I would love to get a job/internship at my church or somewhere else I can start making an impact in the lives of missionaries. I would love to be able to assist foreign missionaries as well as lead local missions. I know what my dream job is I just don’t know the best way to get there. Should I just be bold and shoot straight for the job I want to have? Should I go back to school? Should I try to get an internship and work my way in to a full-time position? Should I stay in Augusta or move away? These have all been questions that I have been talking to the Lord about. I haven’t gotten many clear answers. Things only seem to get murky the more I look at them. I do know that the Lord has provided in crazy ways for me so far in my journey and that he will continue as I continue to seek Him. I know His plans are good for me.
These conversations are long. They are awesome. I love getting to spend time with the Lord. It is crazy the way that He is constantly showing Himself to me when I just open my eyes and look. He is beautiful and Africa is beautiful. I hate how we are already halfway through this amazing continent. I know that there are a ton of big things to come.
