2017 was a year of Trips for me, nothing like what I’ll be doing this time next year but still there was a lot of miles covered and places explored.
In just under 14 months I have put 20,000 miles on my car from driving and still with 336 miles to go on the current trip I am on it will be much more like 20,700 miles by the time this is over. I have seen some really spectacular things this year. I have been to 14,115 feet at the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado. I have seen 20 feet high walls of snow on Beartooth Pass on the Montana Wyoming border at 10,947 feet at the end of May. I saw two Baseball games in Denver, a wedding in Northern Idaho, countless trips to Billings from camp over the summer, REI’s in Colorado, California and Utah (Utah one was the 2 of January 2018 on this current trip. And through it all I have seen God work.
2017 had its ups and downs as you would expect. If there is one thing I am confident of 2018 will have the same. God has graciously been teaching me how to loose my entirety of my grip on my life for his sake. It started with randomly finding the World Race on a Facebook ad and checking it out. I thought “hey this is kinda cool” started reading blogs of people and being incredibly drawn to it. Had a phone call got parents to approve of it in May. The wait for the route reveal was on and so was the excitement of applying. I want to go and do this trip so much that I said yes with out really thinking about it. This is where the Blog jumping in over my head explains this tendency more.
The pruning of my pride started and is still going on and is being replaced with humbleness. The Fact that I have to blog for this journey is heart wrenching but still necessary because I don’t write well and struggle with getting thoughts onto paper with it making sense. I realized that stepping out of my feeling on abandonment and into the feeling of love is very necessary and I have to make that a conscience choice everyday and have chosen that most days and it is an area where God is teaching and pruning me for the better.
My hope for 2018 is more of what God has been doing recently in my life. And the miles I will travel will be far greater than 20,000. To the ends of the earth right?
Fundraising Fun: Thank you to everyone who has been praying and has given to me, I would not be where I am with out the support of you all. As you can see there is still a lot of work to be done but I am confident in the Lord that it will get done. I have a $5,000 goal to be met by May 18th, 10,000 by July 20th, 13,000 by September 30th, and I need to be fully funded by November 30th which is 11 months away.
