Greetings everyone!
I’m going to be upfront about this blog. It is an emotional roller coaster. You see, I began writing this blog on the plane home from my vacation I took to 3 states the week and a half after Thanksgiving! It starts off with me struggling, then continuing to struggle/get worse, to just a total turnaround of emotions. God is pretty cool like that!
“Today is Monday, December 5th 2016. In 1 month and 2 days my family will be driving us to Atlanta for my launch for the WR. I am still beyond excited but can’t help but start to struggle with saying, ‘see you later,’ to my friends and family. It is starting to hit me how long 11 months really will feel like. This sounds awful but I’m wondering if I’ll still have some of those friends when I get back. Life will be going on for them and who knows where it will take them. I know I shouldn’t be concerned about this > I guess Satan is trying to throw me off of my game.
On the PLUS side I get to do life with 55 other people. Yes that number is correct. All of this time I’ve been saying there are 58 (including myself) on my squad; however, we had 2 members of our family transfer to leave in August for the WR! As our 2nd deadline of $10,000 quickly approaches, I find that I can’t help but wonder if anyone else will transfer to August as well. It is nerve wracking because we are a family so it hurts to see that we will not all be together anymore. Several people on my squad, AND small ministry team still need a couple thousand dollars in order to leave with us. The deadline is December 16 to have $10,000. All I can do is be a furious prayer warrior for them. Please join me in prayer that my S Squad family are listening to God and hearing His plan for their lives; whether the WR is an option or not right now for them. If you feel lead to donate financially, please donate to my teammates Klancy Baker (klancybaker.theworldrace.org) and Abby Thornburg (abbythornburg.theworldrace.org), so we can continue to all be Jesus’ hands and feet as team,’It Is Goode.'”
Week of December 5 – 10: I was extremely sad and withdrawn from people. I was not ready to say goodbyes yet. I watched a lot of Netflix and kind of became a hermit.
Week of December 11 – 16: I continued to binge Netflix shows. I was angry/frustrated that I hadn’t heard from more friends. Like hello people, I’m leaving for 11 months in 3 1/2 weeks, where are my friends? Do they even care I’m leaving? I had NO desire to do my daily devotionals for WR training. I lacked motivation, even with my mentor as an accountability partner, I struggled to want to do them at all. We realized about 3 other squad mates were no longer joining us anymore. Down to 53 total!
Saturday December 17th: I attended an Open House at my good friend James’ house from my adult Bible study, that his family holds every December to collect diapers/wipes for the Philadelphia Diaper Bank. I had not seen my “SOW,” family since I stepped down as one of the leaders in early Summer. It was SO wonderful to reconnect with everyone, I had missed them a lot! Anyway, James’ mom was talking to me about how the process for the WR is coming and what I had to do next. She listens to me explain and then is like, “you need to talk to Susie! She does intercessory prayer!” She tells me to follow her, so I walk around behind her, much like a puppy (haha) as she’s weaving through all of these people in her house (there was a total of just over 100 people who made an appearance throughout the night). We eventually found her and Mrs. Leigh introduced us. I explained to Susie about the trip and she immediately began saying words over me, of what she sees in my future.
Susie said, your life is going to be an adventure! I don’t think you will live in the United States. I see children in your life, not sure if they are your own, I just see you surrounded by children. You do not need extra schooling/more school for what you will be doing. You are equipped as you are. I see you learning under someone and then becoming a trailblazer and doing your own thing!
It was incredible. I have thought of some of these things in the past, but it has been like a solid 7 years since I’ve thought of these things! We went to another room to pray, and her prayer solidified everything she just told me and she also said the children could possibly be orphans. It was a powerful prayer of protection and encouragement. It was EXACTLY what I needed to hear. I had been such an emotional wreck for the past 2 weeks that this immediately improved my mood. I was light as a feather, I was HAPPY. Excitement was once again my number 1 emotion by a long shot! God is incredible. He places people/events/circumstances in our lives exactly when we need them! I am so thankful for a new friend in Susie and even more thankful for Mrs. Leigh, relying on the Spirit and introducing us! Thank you ladies!
I am blown away by God. He just is the best. There’s no other way to say it! Thank you all for reading my blogs, praying for me, my squad, and the countries we will soon be in! Please continue to pray, prayer is so necessary! Spiritual Warfare is running rampant through our squad! Please SUBSCRIBE to my blog, if you have not yet! I will not always be able to post on Facebook when I write a new post! Please be with my squad as we run around like crazy people getting our final supplies/shots/vaccinations and spend the holidays with our family and friends and say goodbyes! We will be ALL reunited on January 8th in Atlanta, fly out the 10th, and land in India on the 12th! I can’t believe it’s here, like really here! It’s been a long time coming, but I am ecstatic for everything God has up His sleeve for us!
God Bless you all!
~Meg
