“You’re crazy”
“I could never do what you are doing?”
“So you’re not making any money, you actually have to pay?”
Those are generally the responses I have gotten when I tell people what I am doing. To me it’s not crazy, this is all I’ve ever wanted to do my entire life.
People mention everything I will ‘lose’ and seem to lose focus on how much more I will actually gain.
Did I say goodbye to the greatest family anyone could ever have? Yes. But I will gain hundreds of new brothers and sisters who I will have with me into eternity.
Did I leave the friends who have supported me and never left my side when times got tough? Yes. But now I get the chance to be that friend who can love others the way my friends love me.
Did I leave a job where I made money and was given a lot of freedom to do what I wanted while working in exchange for not having an income and relying on others for the next year? Yes. But I get to serve others as my ‘job’ and there is no amount of money that could ever could every make me stray from that calling.
Did I leave the only person I have ever been in love with and would have moved anywhere to be with? Yes. But now I get to experience a whole new kind of love from the hundreds of people I will meet during these next 11 months.
Did I leave everything I’ve ever known, every comfort I’ve been given to follow a man who walked the earth 2,000 years ago? Absolutely.
