Over a year ago, I unpacked my bags after one of the greatest thrills of my life- doing the World Race.
It was everything I didn’t imagine it to be. It brutally stripped me bare of my comforts. It enlightened me to the beauty of community. It revealed to me the destiny of nations and ripe harvest of souls radically transformed by the Gospel!
I left never feeling so alive and awakened.
I also never would have imagined the sharp pain of reality that would follow afterward. The loneliness that crept in as I returned home, the place I would unknowingly settle into for the next year and a half. The season I labeled as “transition” which ultimately created a wall of isolation towards everyone around me.
I was so ready to move forward, I was missing out on everything right in front of me.
Time passed on as discomfort grew in my heart. Opportunities came and went, pulling me in all sorts of directions. Yet the gentle gravitation of home pulled me in stronger as time went on. While in my heart I knew this was where I was meant to be, my soul lingered and ached.
It didn’t occur to me that the very place I kept resisting was the very place I needed for transformation.
I had no choice but to stop fighting. I began to place my desires and questions into Abba’s arms. To breathe in the sweet aroma of my Lover’s affection. To delight in His joy and embrace my home community. To lavish the treasures of His love upon my city and watch it be awakened.
I found that with contentment God ignites our destinies. His deposit of love drives our daily patterns. His enjoyment is in His kids.
He is setting ablaze cities and nations with the fire of His presence, and He’s strategically placed us right where we are today to join in the glory!
No matter where we’re at, what season we’re in, and what dreams may be on hold- it’s time to celebrate what we were made for and live in that reality!
