The Life I Didn’t Know I Needed

Hey, y’all!! It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post; life on the field has been non-stop. Here are a few little things happening down here in Costa Rica:

• We had a week or two of consistent health issues across the whole squad, but we’re all healing/healed now 🙂

• We eat rice & beans every day, and I mean every day.

• I’m completely fluent in Spanish!!! Okay, that’s a lie, but I’m getting better.

• We now know how to paint homes, level yards, and build new fences.

• Soccer & volleyball with the local children is almost a nightly occurrence.

• I upgraded from sleeping on a yoga mat to an inflatable pad & it changed my life.

That list could be never-ending. So much happens every single day that I could never write them all down. This life is truly one-of-a-kind; living on the mission field is unlike anything that I could have ever imagined. Every day is a new, exciting adventure that I would have never gotten to experience if it weren’t for choosing to leave my life behind. For example, scorpion fights before church… pretty sure that wouldn’t happen in America. I would never know what it is like to live & serve alongside like-minded people with the same calling of servanthood. I would have never learned how to communicate across a language barrier. Most of all, I would have never seen what was on the other end of obedience and saying “yes” to God.

When He spoke the race into my path, I had to make so many sacrifices in order to make it happen. I lost my full ride to college, I had to work countless extra hours to raise money, and I had to attempt to explain to my community exactly why I was making these seemingly crazy decisions, which resulted in both support and backlash. I had no other choice but to trust in God’s plan because it was a season where I could not see what was on the other end. It is much easier to follow God’s plan when you know exactly how it will play out, and in this case, I had absolutely no clue. If I have learned anything in this season, though, it is that there is no safer place to be than in the center of God’s will. 

Living life on the path that God has called you to is indescribable. I feel like I was designed for life on the mission field, and I would have never known if I didn’t say “yes.” Staying in my usual Florida routine was definitely the most simple, logical route… but it was not God’s route, and I will forever be thankful for God giving me the boldness to follow Him.

To all of my supporters… THANK YOU!!! There’s a shift in the atmosphere here, God is doing something big. If it weren’t for you, that might not be happening.