My name is Meggie, and I am a selfish traveler.
I travel for cheap thrill and a list of bragging rights.
I travel for self-indulgence and pointless wandering.
I travel for distraction from my thoughts.
I travel for my own immature curiosity’s sake.
I travel to run from the things that are too hard to face back home.
I travel because I’m too afraid to start in on the path God has laid before me.
And I am praised by my peers for it…but why?
My generation is hungry to taste the world. And it should be! It’s a wonderful, overwhelming, beautiful, insane place. We crave exploration and lust after experiences of the unknown. But travel, purely for experiences, is pointless, without a purpose.
We all want to see the world, and we all talk about changing it. I’ve been lucky enough to see quite a bit of her, but I’ve made no change, no impact. I’ve only stumbled around taking from the world, and never giving back.
My lack of purpose has made me look back on my travels with regret and longing- a wishful heart that they had held more meaning and been lived with more deliberate intention.
This year, I want to submit to Yahweh and commit to making a change in His name.
I want to stop glamorizing the aspect of getting lost in the world, and instead, share with you my effort to spread God’s love throughout it.
I want to lend help, give love, be humbled, laugh loud, and cry in vulnerability with the people of the world, in an effort that they might come to know their Creator like I have.
Keep an eye out for the next blog so I can tell you a little about what that’s going to look like!
Abba, ‘hold me fast, because I’m a hopeless wanderer.’ 😉
