I have a $50,000+ truck, $10,000+ in guns, a fully furnished house, I vacation whenever I want, a healthy savings account, and I am GIVING IT ALL UP! Now I understand that many people will consider this foolish or irresponsible, and possibly ungrateful of my blessings, but I will challenge them to stay with me and hear me out.
I am 24 years old with no college degree and a slightly above average work ethic. With that being said the oilfield seemed like the answer to a lot of questions and a means to a lot of ends. I began Fracking in May of 2014 and began amassing my little empire.
In the beginning everything was great and I couldn’t have asked for anything more. I enjoyed the work, the people, and of course the financial freedom it provided me was mind boggling and obscene. Eventually the newness wore off and the work became mundane, co workers started frustrating me, and I became numb to the money. Nothing was exciting to me anymore. Paychecks that I would have been ecstatic about just a few months earlier I found my self complaining about. I had sold out and sacrificed everything for the almighty dollar.
My life was just all around unhealthy. I started getting fat, work stressed me out, and any bit of Jesus in my life was completely gone. The feeling of emptiness in me began to grow, and I began wondering if I was where I truly needed to be. I asked myself one day “Micah, when was the last time were you happy on a regular basis?” I didn’t know what I wanted in life but I knew what I had wasn’t working. I seemingly had everything, but was just unfulfilled.
During this time in my life there was still one thing I wanted to do. The last thing on the checklist was to see the word. Coincidentally I had 2 Facebook friends who were currently on this thing called The World Race. They would post pictures of their world travels and it peaked my curiosity. I began looking into the world race and it was something I was interested in even though I knew very little about it. Never the less I decided to apply and just see what happened. I liked the idea of stripping my life back down to the basics and getting away from the rat race.To my surprise I was accepted and immediately a sense of peace and joy came over me.
I had come full circle. I had set goals to be successful by the worldly standard and achieved them convincingly. When all the money and things just wasn’t enough I set goals to strip my life down and have more meaningful pursuits. This shift in perspective could only have been because of Jesus, but I hadn’t come to realize that yet. This realization would not come until training camp……
