I’ve been trying to write this post for about an hour now, and there really aren’t any words for how crazy this all is. Looking back at where I was a year from now, I would have never ever thought about doing this, I would be paralyzed with fear just by thinking about picking up and leaving home for nine months, but! so many new people and new experiences have began to pile up and everything has changed. And without me even realizing it, God has been working in BIG ways, and it all led me to where I am now. I’m writing my first post, attempting explain my thought process behind why I committed to going on a crazy, nine month long trip, to three different continents (not even just three different countries, but three different continents) with a bunch of strangers all in the pursuit of going out, serving the kingdom of God and loving his people through everything that I do. So in the sense of where my heart for Jesus is, this trip makes complete and utter sense for me. but in all reality, the race is something that was always beyond my wildest dreams
This kind of journey is something I never really expected myself to do, and even now I am still in a state of shock when thinking about how real it is all becoming. Serving God and spreading his love through my actions is something that brings me an unexplainable level of joy, not surface level kind of joy but soul fulfilling, heart pumping, feet moving kind of joy. My passion for this was sparked last summer while serving at camp. Never before this had I ever been in a community of people who all were just chasing after God with everything they had in them, while simultaneously showing others the ways God’s love changes a person. I was serving middle school campers. Young, barely-teenage kids, who probably didn’t even understand the extent of who God really was and what Jesus did for them. And I was able to play a role in a week of their lives they will probably never forget. By serving meals and cleaning up the messes left over, I began to understand just how much joy comes along with serving in the kingdom.
And that mindset is what ended me up here, jumping head first into this new crazy experience I will be throwing myself into come September fifth. In the mean time I’ll keep sharing all my thoughts and ideas on here, continue praying over route four and the crazy new family I’ll meet there, and that Jesus will give me the boldness to continue pursuing Him in the same way He has always pursued me.
With love,
Syd
