Two or three months before I left for the race, I told my dad in a phone call that unless something happened within the next 6 months, I planned to move to Alaska and work on a fishing boat or look for a job on an oil rig.
I was desperate. Every job I looked into or career I pursued eventually became a ball and chain. I had so many ideas and I didn’t want to be tied to a single job for the rest of my life. Life had shown me so many times that my dreams are unobtainable that I left my dreams by the wayside.
My problem? My dreams weren’t big enough.
I always had dreams that were “me-sized”. Something I could obtain in my own strength and it never satisfied. As God has shown me his faithfulness and love through His provision in things that are so far beyond me, I have begun dreaming God-sized dreams.
My dreams have never been more crazy and seemingly unobtainable, but I’ve never felt more peace about my path in life.
That’s what this blog is for. I’ve always talked about a bucket list but I never actually written one because I didn’t believe that my dreams could happen. Now I do, and now I will share them!
I desire to see people walking in the freedom and boldness that was given to them by Christ’s death on the cross and living in the fullness of God’s intention for them, unrestrained by expectations, cultural norms, or lies from their past that they have believed.
I desire to experience all that this world has to offer. From summiting Everest to diving in the Marianas trench. From the grandeur of mans architecture to the beauty of the arts, I want to see and experience it all.
I desire to bring kingdom everywhere I go. To build community and disciple others in this freedom.
I desire to build self sufficient ministries and nonprofit organizations that can minister to those in need. From organization for troubled youth in inner cities to single mothers to prisons to the homeless and the drug addicted. The world is so full of brokenness and pain and I want to bring Gods love and freedom everywhere that He gives me vision of a need.
I desire to set up businesses that become so successful that I have to hire a person for the sole task of finding more ministries to support. An endeavor that will continue to sow seeds into the kingdom long after I am gone.
I know these are extremely vague and seemingly have no single direction. Every person I have ever talked to has said that I need to have a single goal and it needs to be specific. But I have goals and dreams bigger than I can even put into words, and I have peace in that.
My God has provided over $20,000 for this World Race, kept me safe in many situations that should have killed me, and has walked me into this experience to show me how big and how capable my God is. He has given me all things related to life and Godliness, gifts and talents, and the drive to pursue the fullest extent of His purpose for me!
I don’t know how or even where to begin, but I know that this is a life that satisfies, and I know that God will honor a dream to change the entire world.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
??John? ?10:10? ?
