So, this is my first ever blog! I guess I’ll just start this off telling you a little bit about myself, and why I have made the decision to abandon my comfortable life… in my cozy home… with my loving family, to embark on a 9 month adventure to 3 impoverished countries with only a backpack of supplies. It seems crazy to some people, and maybe it is, but God calls us as his followers to be a little crazy. To jump out of our comfort zones and radically live for Him.
As most of you know, my name is Megan. I am 18 years old, and am about to graduate from Lexington Christian Academy this coming May. I first heard about the world race from a friend of mine about halfway through junior year, and pretty much freaked out because it sounded exactly like something I had always wanted to do after high school, but just didn’t even know it existed! I have a sister who is 3 years older than me who was in her second year of college at the time, and was interested in going on a journey such as the race at some point. So when I told my family about this amazing program called the World Race, my sister was instantly hooked. Before long, she had applied and been accepted! Admittedly, when my sister officially decided she was doing the race, I didn’t feel excited for her, but rather I felt bitter towards her for “stealing” “my” thing. My sister and I are best friends, and eventually I realized how selfish I was being, and was able to be happy for her and excited with her as she was preparing. After this whole thing went down, I was super happy for my sister, but had kinda just stopped thinking about it for myself. Sometimes I would wish that I was doing it as well, but then I would think “no.. I’m being selfish again, this is Brooke’s thing now”. It took me until December of this school year to realize that the World Race isn’t anyone’s “thing”. It’s God’s thing. Just because my sister is doing the race certainly doesn’t mean that I can’t do it too! It’s not about personal glory, or attention, it’s about serving The Lord in whatever way he will use me. So I began to pray about the race for myself specifically. I prayed and prayed about it for a few weeks before I said anything to my parents about it (I already had college figured out for next year). One Wednesday night I knew that I was ready to talk about it. I decided that the best approach was to just casually bring it up with my mom, and when I did she was extremely receptive and supportive of the idea. She encouraged me to continue to pray about it and also encouraged me to meet up with a girl who had graduated from my school and had just returned from a world race passport trip. I said that I would try to meet up with her, but I didn’t know her so I never really intended to. But God is just really cool, and the next day at school guess who was speaking in chapel? The girl that my mom had just encouraged me to meet with. I was in awe as she was sharing about her experience, and just encouraging anyone to have the faith and courage to take a gap year to pursue The Lord if we felt called. I knew that God was speaking directly to me through her.
Since that day I have continued to trust God, and everything has flawlessly fallen into place. I can’t wait to see what is in store for me throughout this Kingdom Journey. I know that God will use the highs and the lows of this experience to shape me into who He has designed me to be.
