Well, here we are! I have been waiting and waiting and I have finally been accepted to the World Race!! YAY!! This is almost surreal. After years of just being stagnant, I am finally taking this step out! I’ve felt in such a slump lately and now I feel this excitement to go. Now I actually have to prepare to go, instead of just dreaming and hoping that I could go. I AM SO EXCITED!!!! YAY!
Also, I should note that my sister is the blogger of the family. I have never done this before. 😉
How did I get here, you ask? Let me explain. This all started a few months ago with a conversation with a friend after church one day. I was venting my frustration with life and not really knowing what to do with my life if some of my deepest desires were not being met. I had been frustrated with God and feeling like He was ignoring me and my desires, specifically to get married and have a family. My friend very kindly pointed out that maybe I should focus on the other half of my desires vs the ones that weren’t being met. I’ve always thought I would be a wife and mother and that I would do missions. Well, I am still not married and definitely don’t have kids. While I desperately want this to happen, another portion of my life’s desire is to do missions and help people, and I have been neglecting this. This conversation sparked an amazing fire in me! Since then, I’ve had some other miraculous conversations about mission’s opportunities I could take. At the same time another friend brought up The World Race and immediately I knew I needed to pray about it and check it out. I contacted a friend who had done this race a few years ago. I asked her a million questions and felt I just needed to pray about it. Well now, a few months later, I have been accepted for the January 2016 Route 1 Race. 🙂 It seems like the timing could not be more perfect. The things that were hindering me from going previously, are gone. So again, here we are! I can’t believe this is happening.
How am I going to make this happen? Well, I will be quitting my job at the end of the year, crazy in this economy, I know. I will be selling everything I own. Its time to clean house and let go. I will be home for the holidays this year, then off I go!
In the meantime, I need to buck up to the challenge of fundraising. This is a daunting task which I am quite nervous about. But I also know that God can totally show up and surprise me in big ways. So bring it on!! 🙂
