Don’t mistake my excitement for
wanderlust.
Of course, anyone who knows me knows
I love to travel.
But that’s not why I’m doing the
WorldRace.
To be honest I’m scared. I know
myself, and I know where I need to grow. I know I depend much too much on man,
when I need to fear God alone. God has opened up this door to tear me away from
everyone I know and love for a year so that I can be abandoned to Him and His
service.
I want to be changed. I want to be
wrecked.
One of my prayers this summer was
that Jesus would “rain on my parade, strip me down, and bring me to my
knees” so that I would be desperate for Him.
Oh, did He do that. I was shattered.
Wrecked.
…And never more joyful.
God had to rip the scales of my
dragon-flesh off, and reveal a heart that was finally softened to His leading.
And as scary as it is, it’s almost
adrenaline-like. I know our Father is up to something AMAZING. This summer I
learned to CRAVE Heaven. Now I crave bringing Heaven to earth as we attempt to
establish His kingdom and be amassadors of His will being done here. I’m so
homesick for Heaven. Now, don’t get me wrong. There will be suffering, there
will be lonliness, there may even be yelling at God a few times, but I’ve
learned to cherish both the desert and the storm. Even though it may be rough
at times, maybe even most of the time, I am excited for that. I do not say this
out of ignorance. I say this as one who God has allowed to suffer many times. I
treasure those intimate times with Him.
not to safeness, but to something more-upward, higher, further along. To bypass
this call is to settle for mediocrity, complacency, and dormancy. And should I
choose not to risk I will more than likely wake up some morning with this
haunting question on my mind: could God have had something more for me if only
I had dared to trust?”
Here we go!
WOW… there she goes!
Praying for you and will keep track of your travels!
Drew
Sweetie… loving your posts but just how much will this mission trip cost? Do you have a minimum number of dollars that you need to collect by a certain deadline? What is that amount & when do you need it?
You’re giving us all the opportunity to live vicariously thru you, while you’re doing God’s work but I think we need to have some idea just what kind of money you’re seeking?!
Thanks, dear… missin’ ya!