I am completely new to this blogging thing…a place for me to literally talk about anything means I draw a blank a lot of the time! I thought a good first post would be to talk about how I chose the World Race. So here it goes…
Like most things in my life when I first heard about the World Race my initial thought was, sounds cool but never in a million years would I ever commit to something like this.
I was in the middle of interning at a vocational school for boys in Belize for the summer (It’s a pretty cool place check it out!: http://www.belizevotech.com/) when I first heard of the trip. I had committed to this internship having no previous knowledge of the school or the country itself. The first time I had heard about the mission trip my church takes to Belize over spring break I thought to myself that I would never ever visit this place. When my college pastor mentioned the need for an intern in Belize for the summer, I immediately felt called to go. So I went. It was one of the most life changing experiences.
It was the same with the World Race, a supporter of the school was in Belize at graduation and mention his daughter participating in the World Race and thought I would be a good fit for it. I listened to his explanation and the whole time was thinking to myself never in my life will I ever participate in something like that. I didn’t give it another thought until last year when I was having a mini freakout about what am I doing with my life. So I looked it up and immediately knew this is what I was called to do next.
Immediately refusing opportunities before seeking the Lord first and then finding He is calling to do the very thing I refused to do has been kind of a trend in my life. The times where I actually took time to seek what the God wants me to do first and followed His plan and not my own, I have found these times to be some of the most incredible experiences.Experiences (like Belize) that I never thought I would be a part of and have far exceeded any expectations I had. I wrote this not to show how obedient I have been in my life (because unfortunately the opposite is usually true) but as a testament that God’s plan is far more incredible than any plan I could come up with on my own. Trusting Him no matter how impossible the task seems to be, whether it’s taking the Gospel to someone across the room or across the world. No matter what it is, I promise it is so worth it. 
