I cannot get over the financial support that I have received. I am fully funded!!! I have all my gear! My shots are paid for! My flights are paid for! It is humbling. It is amazing. It is weird to have people hand me money. It is hard for me to accept help. I like writing thank you notes, but wish I could do more than say thank you. I feel like I should do more than say thank you. I feel like I should give a gift for receiving a gift. And then I hear God whisper, “It is not your money. It is not about you.”
A few years ago I coached freshman girls basketball and every now and then at practice I would have the girls repeat after me, “It’s not about me.” Now I am the one repeating it daily. It is not my money. It never was and isn’t now. This money is for God’s glory. People donated the money that God blessed them with, to bless me with, so that I can bless others. People are helping me so that I in return help others. My gift to them is to be a blessing to others. God gives us different gifts. Hans Urs von Balthasar said, “What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” So true!
It is not about me. All this attention that I am getting is not for me. It is for God’s glory. He has moved in my heart and my squad mates’ hearts to bring us together to serve Him. We will serve Him in a thousand different ways but all glory is to God. God put all the right people in my path so that I would serve Him through the World Race. And I will serve Him with really good gear! And a well vaccinated body! And with my whole being!
God is Good!
