Preparing for a new comfort zone…
Every new beginning comes with an end. New chapters come with different letters, different fonts and different characters. His plans are my plans, my life is the Lord’s to use. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” As I sit here and think about my comfort zone and how saying goodbye is not in that comfort zone and it is coming soon my heart breaks a little. However, the Lord reminds me my life is His not mine. If He says wait I will wait, if He says go I will go. This is certainly one of most difficult things I think I’ve had to do; pack up and go. No turning back. Saying goodbye to my family, friends, and co-workers is becoming harder and harder every day. As my launch date comes closer and closer the goodbye I’m not sure I know how to do or even that I can do is the goodbye to my momma. This is where my comfort zone really lies, this is the first place I turn to when I need help and she’s quick to help and quick to make me laugh and feel better about anything no matter the challenge. Over the years she has become my best friend and the one I am most often to have the most ridiculous amount of fun with. My momma has been there with me through thick and thin, she’s always been there and has never left. I can’t remember a time where we have been apart for more than just a couples of days and now I’m leaving for nine months. The Lord is not just using the World Race as a mission trip, but a place for me to learn and grow. As I haven’t even left yet He is already using it as a comfort zone breaker. Our comfort zone and security blankets are suppose to be in the Lord. As I sit here and think about leaving the comfort zone of my momma He is already beginning to teach me about His comfort zone. Most often I think that we are so concerned and consumed with everything around us that is of this world we forget about not leaving our comfort zones that we miss out on opportunities to share Christ’s love with others. We miss investing in someone’s life. We miss out on the blessings of being able to love and minister to people the Lord has set right in front of us. As I am about to embark on this journey I leave everything behind to follow the Lord’s plan for my life including His comfort zone and not my own comfort zone. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 says, “Now may our Lord Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.”
