I just said probably one of the most ridiculous things via text that I had ever said in my life.
I said I wish I had taken less risk.
Meaning:
Maybe I should have just stayed a preschool teacher.
Not gone on the race.
I’d have more of career, maybe more stability, less dreams, more foundations.
I could be right now sitting in my apartment in Orange County.
Maybe having just gone shopping or something, anything that was Saturday normal.
But instead, I’m sitting outside on my old trampoline at my parents house.
Reading and also staring at my journal because if I’m being honest?
I’m kind of afraid to pour my thoughts into at the moment.
Because I’m terrified.
I’m scared of what people will think when I tell them.
I’m not ready to settle down and get a job.
God’s plans aren’t that for me right now.
I’ve actually been sitting on my hands for about a week out of terror.
Because I know what’s next.
I know that God has put a plan, a vision in my heart and a way to get there.
And it’s terrifying.
Because it doesn’t involve getting a “real job” right now.
It doesn’t involve staying in the states.
It doesn’t involve anything emotionally easy.
It involves more learning, more growing, more being stretched and torn apart.
It involves raising money
It involves pouring my heart out to try to help people understand the why.
It involves going to Spain for 6 month and being apart of a leadership community called G42.
Whoosh.
I remember that sound.
It’s the sound I made when I finally came out about the World Race last year.
It’s the sound of a release of emotions bottled up inside for so long that I honestly didn’t know what to do with them.
It’s a sound that holds my dreams and visions for getting and grasping onto the tools that will empowering me to help remind others that hope is a verb.
It’s the sound of someone who is choosing to allow herself to be launched without much to grasp on herself.
It the sound of someone who is choosing to not be afraid anymore of what others say.
And the sound of someone who can’t believe she even for a second regretted the one thing that changed her life for the good.
I’ll be talking more about G42 soon.
If you have questions, comments or want to learn ways you can partner with me, please let me know.
I just had to get this out there. Not be held down by fear or confusion, but choose to walk in the peace of mind that God has given me.
And for my friends, for those I love and cherish that I haven’t told about this: Please forgive me for letting the few naysayers and pessimistic people I have told get in the way of telling you, the ones who have always supported me and stood by me.
(and HERE is a video a short video with a glimpse into the heart of G42)