Why?

Why is the first question anyone asks when making major life decisions, so why the world race?

This journey began 2 and a half years ago as life was being shaken up and the future began to look very uncertain. A last minute road trip took me to Memphis listening to the conversations of a friend of a friend. She began talking about her experiences on this missions trip called The World Race. I was so intrigued, I found myself enthralled with the idea. However, it seemed like something that would never be attainable to me, I was in the middle of nursing school and my marriage had just unexpectedly fallen apart and I was still in the midst of trying to pick up the pieces. I let the dreams of this fall away as something unattainable. 

Instead, I spent the next year finishing school and reconciling with my husband. Then the next year and half in the confusion of walking away from an unhealthy marriage and living in the “Now what” phase of life. I picked up my life and moved to the DC metro area to try and embark on my new future. The only way I knew how to do this was recommit my focus on my relationship with God. 

God was one of the many things that had fallen away in my relationship and He was the only thing that got me through the heart break and devastation of the last two and a half years. I began feeling a stirring for adventure, for a purpose to my days. But not only this, I wanted to use my lack of roots, my desires for God’s purpose. I wanted to do something honoring to Him. God used a friend to reintroduce The World Race to me and I was hooked. I sat with this desire for a few months to ensure this was His plan and not MY plan. 

Looking back over my story, I’m only reminded that God can use ALL things for His glory. Maybe I needed to go through the past two and a half years to be awoken. To open the eyes of my heart to my Savior. To allow His grace to be sufficient for me. All I know is without listening to the tugs at my heart I wouldn’t be here about to embark on an adventure for Him and His Kingdom.

So, open your ears. Open the eyes of your heart. Listen, listen to those stirrings in your heart, God may just be trying to tell you something.