I'm not that girl: I don't hike, camp or go to the bathroom in the woods. I've lived alone for over 4 years now. I'm almost 30. I've been planning a career and hoping to get married. Strong smells and gross sights make me dry heave. And I'm the biggest pack rat in the world-I'm pretty sure my best friend thinks if I have a major crisis I'll become a hoarder as a coping mechanism. I'm not the type of girl who I would imagine does The World Race. Yet here I am.
So, how did I get to this point? God. In August 1999 I came to Eastern Nazarene College as a freshman. I graduated 2003, got a job in the Admission's Office where I worked until I switched departments in 2006. I have never left. First I need to say ENC has been the best place for me. I have learned and grown so much and I could not ask for a better community of believers. But for the past year I've known that my time has been coming to an end. I've become lazy in my faith and in seeking after God. It has all become too routine for me. I knew I needed a change. So I started praying. And I started praying that an opportunity would open up outside of New England. I needed a complete change. And boy did God answer my prayers!
My friend Jenn has a friend named Haile who is leaving Oct. 1st for the World Race and when Jenn first told me about it I instantly dismissed it because as I've mentioned, I'm not that girl. And then when I was home alone or had some extra time in the office I would find myself on at the website, reading the blogs feeling more and more like I could do this. So I applied, was accepted and now I'm writing my first blog. I guess I am that girl…
The craziest part of this whole thing is that as I've been telling family, friends and co-workers no one is surprised about that I'm doing this trip. At first I thought they didn't actually know me as well as I thought they would but now I'm starting to see that maybe I didn't know myself as well as I thought I did. Maybe they've seen God working and preparing me and I was blind to it. Either way I'm ready now. Scared. But ready.
