The Next Big Thing

Most of you have heard. If you haven't heard, shame on you. But if you haven't heard what you should have heard because you just haven't heard, then the fault is assuredly my own.

Instead of a half-hearted shrug in response to "What are you going to do after graduation?" I now can poo and pee my pants on cue and say, "I'm going to be traveling around the world to help people in need on a budget of $3.75 a day."

I still feel so small, you can't even imagine.
I still feel like a child.
I always thought that once I hit that pivotal age (no one really told me when this arbitrary age actually was, I just thought I'd know when I hit it), that I'd stop feeling helpless, or that there would be the confidence of experience backing my words, and my actions.
But I still feel comfort when my mom cooks me a meal, when I'm sitting in that student's chair, or when I get to eat a lollipop.

I really don't know how people do it.
Even when I'm trying my hardest to be brave, I feel helpless.
For this reason, I'm so thankful for God -- because I'll never feel sure enough on my own that I'm really doing what I'm actually supposed to be doing. But He does.
He has created for me, a purpose for every breath.
This is what I'll have to keep in mind everyday when I'm out in the field.
That even when I feel the most helpless, He is all at once with me, and with the lost.

I chose, ultimately, to join The World Race because I was tired of looking at my own life, reading God's word, and not seeing a direct reflection. I spoke to so many disillusioned Christians (including myself) and simply could not understand the reason for the symptoms of spiritual collapse, of unbelief, and of cynicism that plague our hearts. It is more serious than we think. There is more to life than pursuing our own desires and hoping, praying, that God will want the same things for us. I want to see God's heart. I want to see His unsought kingdom.

Here again, is the video I posted and sent out.
Watch it if you haven't seen it!



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I'm doing a series on my World Race blog called, "The World Bake!" Basically I'm baking/cooking a dessert from every country we're visiting in the route (hopefully I can find recipes). I was thinking of posting those on here too, but I wondered if it would be redundant. What do you think?