Training Camp…..What can I say about it that won’t give away too much for future racers?
Can I just say it truly is one amazing week! Within a week you form bonds with people so tight that honestly feels like you have had for years. It is awesome to be around people who are all pursuing the same thing and wanting to push each other towards the Lord. It was such a refreshing week. It starts pretty intense and honestly doesn’t let up much.
You get to meet people from all over the country/world, and you get to make some incredible friendships. I was most excited to meet my squad and my team. I love getting to meet new people and truly getting to know them.
I think so often we can get caught in our Christian “bubble” that we start to play Christian instead of living it day out. We can become so easily influenced to abandon who God made us to fit in, in a secular world and a Christian one, and we forget how God wants to be with us……He wants to be with the person He created….the person who is so unique and loved inside and out by the one true God!
I have noticed how I can easily abandon my uniqueness to fit into a group but at training camp I made sure I was to be myself. I want people to know me…all of me….I want to be an open book. I don’t want to play a “part” in Christianity, I want to live it. I am about to embark on the biggest adventure of my life and I don’t want to be “acting” during those eleven months. I want to be me. I want to be the man God has created me to be. I want to be real with people. I want to be an open book.
Training camp confirmed that God wants me. He wants me because He loves me! Not because I act a certain way, but because I recognize who He is and I want Him to have all of me, not the “actor”.
In saying that, I have been blessed to go on this journey with the best team ever! We are so diverse in our walks with Christ, we are from all over the U.S., Canada (and one from Ireland…..Sean!). Best of all…..we are real! We are who God has called us to be! We don’t act like we have it all together, we don’t judge one another, we celebrate our uniqueness, and we love one another like ourselves!
All of this was facilitated by training camp. God has given the vision and training camp is running with that vision. There isn’t much more to say except that I love my squad completely and I love my team! I truly care for each individual person and I honestly never thought that would be possible after just a week!
God is so good!
