Hi! Welcome to my World Race blog. My name is Whitney Conner and I am a 26 year old Georgia native living in Atlanta. I am currently finishing my last semester of my undergraduate collegiate career! I graduate in MAY! Yay! I am so excited that in 6 short months I will be launching on my July 2014 Route 3 World Race!
While attending school and preparing for the World Race I am living with and nannying for my cousin Sherri, her husband John, their daughter Ally Grace and soon to be little boy Bo! (He is still in the belly but due any day now! As of January!)
I grew up here in Georgia my whole life, just 60 miles East of Atlanta in a very small town called Rutledge. Population… roughly 500! I am the third child of four and the only girl. I truly attribute my brothers to so many of my interests and who I am today. They instilled in me the love of being barefoot both inside and outside, climbing magnolia trees, the love of college football (as I am a crazy fan of the University of Georgia! GO DAWGS!) We spent all of our childhood and youth outside playing basketball, football, wiffle ball, and kickball and having ping pong tournaments in our basement. We did everything together!
As I grew older I realized LIFE IS NOT AT ALL what I thought it was. As a small town Southern Baptist I was and still am very naive to the ugliness of sin in this world. When I was 13 years old major changes in my family life directly changed me. All of the sudden the carefree, happy, secure Whitney was all of a sudden worried, anxious, scared and insecure as I watched everything I once knew change as my family fell apart. Fast forward 10 years and a whole lot of brokenness later thanks to this fallen world and me seeking everything but Jesus to fill the hole in my heart that was made only to be filled with a relationship with God, I can honestly say that I was farther from the Whitney God made me to be and I was everything I didn’t want to be.
But because God is God- Sovereign, Patient, Loving, Caring, Kind and THE PERFECT FATHER He fought for my heart by showing me His unconditional love, grace and mercy that eventually led be back into church and community with Christians that continued to lead me into a relationship with Him.
Over the last 3 years He has done some MAJOR TRANSFORMATIONS in my HEART AND LIFE. He has opened my eyes to my brokenness I desperately tried to hide all these years and tore down my tough walls and is showing me His strength is in my weakness and He is healing me more and more each day with His love. I know in my heart that the more I know God the more I know Love. The more I know God the more I know Peace. The more I know God the more I know what Security feels like again. And the more I know God the more I know who Whitney is again. And I am falling in love with the life God has for me through both the hard days when my flesh wants one thing and I know God wants another and through the days when I am so awestruck by who He is that I can’t imagine life without being in complete and utter obedience and in love with Him.
I pray that my life will always reflect the LOVE, PEACE, PATIENCE, GRACE, MERCY, RESTORATION AND REDEMPTION that comes from God ALONE through Christ Jesus.
