The World Race Changed My Life, and God Changed Me.

So as you can notice by now, my race is coming to an end.. Sad face 🙁
But! This is the best part. I get to not only share my experiences with anyone and everyone but I get to step into a new season of my life!

When I chose to pursue the World Race and commit to 9 months of change, I had no idea that the Lord would do so much in my heart. I went into training camp seeking deep healing for trauma I had walked through in high school. I said to myself “surely when I give up 9 months of my life God will heal me, I hope”. Indeed I did walk through amazing, deep, true healing from God, but it didn’t stop there. The flood gates were opened. The doorway to my heart was creaking open to the blinding light of the Father. God was waiting, anticipating this moment where I would start to step into the ocean of His love. His presence hit me like waves, over and over, drenching me in His loving kindness. I felt the question raise to the surface, “is this what it feels like to be loved by You?”

The capacity in my heart grew exponentially. I was able to dive into The Word, having new eyes to see and interpret what His words meant. I was hungry for more of Him and the truth. I started spending hours instead of minutes reading. The more I read the more I wanted to understand and see through Gods eyes instead of my own. Praying and asking God ” What does this mean?” or “what are you trying to tell me Lord?” Never before had I desired to read so much! Now I can’t go a day without reading my bible!! I also have looked to faith based books for more perspective. This has challenged me to bring what I hear and read always back to God and the Word. I have become more grounded in what I believe in my heart, soul, and spirit because I hold true and close the Words of the Father.

Giving grace to my squamates; trust me it’s not that easy to live with 23 other people. That’s 23 other opinions, 23 personalities, 23 beliefs, 23 different lives, 23 individuals that I’m bound to butt heads with haha. A desire for growth; I saw healing in my mind and heart reflected on the outside. I wanted more of this. I wanted to be closer to Him. The closer I was to Him the more everything around me grew. It grew in perspective, in meaning, I was becoming more aware of just how vast the Kingdom of God is and how deeply the Father seeks to be with me and do life with me!!

If you know me, you know I love to help people, in any and all ways. I was challenged to love and serve my squad in new ways. Many times this scripture is quoted by all of us “ Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 We remind each other to put aside ourselves so we can love one another better. That is showing the love of Christ. In addition to loving my squad well, I learned to love people better, Guatemalans, Costa Rican, even Americans. I saw the love that Jesus poured over me overflow into all my relationships, new and old. I had a choice to continue to pour out that love on every person I met.

There’s a pattern with everything I’m saying if you haven’t realized or caught on to the title of this blog. The World Race changed my life for sure, it took me out of my comfort zone and put my in a place where all I had to do was say ‘Yes’ to Jesus. When I said yes, that meant I could then be changed by the Father, claim my identity in Christ, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17

I will be sharing more and more of what God has done on my race, so stay tuned!!

Anddddddd you might also have noticed the new fundraising bar at the top of my blog page…  I have some very exciting news about what I am doing after the Race, which I will be sharing so very soon!!!!

keep smiling:)

-Kayci