no convenience.

I don’t find things to be of convenience anymore.

There is just no way that in all of the time during a day that goes by or the many places that we could be …that is it ever just by “convenience”. There are just too many opportunities for us to miss a moment, to mess it up, there has to be more. 

So thank you God, thank you for always being right on time. 

Two months (well less than two months now) until I officially get on a jet plane out of SLC to Georgia where we will do one final prep at Adventures In Missions headquarters before launching to whatever country we are called to first. (Yup…we still haven’t been told where that will be #flexible).

ALSO I am ONE MONTH away from the goal of 100% fundraised in 100days, and right now I am at 52% raised…. let’s go friends! 

All the updates as the time in America is dwindling more and more. The point of this is that, as time goes away… stress and urgency of DOING seems to go up. I have been slingshotting myself in and out of the perspective on being present in the places that I find myself. To not look past the moment where I find myself across from an old friend at coffee, or talking to a new guest at church. I am physically here right now, so I mentally want to be here and not miss whatever it is God is doing right now. It can be difficult to remain HERE, because going THERE is so incredible near. 

BUT, like I said though, I slingshot in and out of this and yesterday… ha yesterday was not a day where I was grateful for the tiny moments. I was ready to gooo, “ish”. 

I started the morning with a text from my work that I would be placed on-call for the day… but fun fact I love going to work so I was bummed with this. Two hours later, they call me into work, but to float to a different unit. Full transparency, I was NOT pleased, maybe even bitter. Yet, there I went, and there I saw God. 

Of all the units to float to. 

Of all the places for this student RN to have a shift rotation. 

Of all the days in the week to work. 

Of all the hours in the day to be called in. 

He knew, before I knew, that I needed to meet a 2015 Alumni Global South Racer. 

You’ve got to be kidding me! Nope. I was honestly so blown away, speechless, and encouraged! There are some questions that I have running through my head that only people who are preparing or have experienced The World Race first hand know how to answer. I’ve been holding onto more of those questions than I had initially realized, yet there they were to answer all of them, and some. They became an ally for me, a supporter for me, and a ministry partner in that very pod of nurses that we were in. 

Be present I heard, be present I did… and boy did my bitter attitude shift. Imagine how easy it would have been to miss that, to put my head down and not acknowledge those around me, to let my bitter attitude be all encompassing. 

Thankfully I didn’t…because in that moment of time yesterday, more confidence and assurance was cemented to my core that THIS… this is it. 

So thank you God, thank you for not being in the “convenience” of time. 

xoxo