Expect Nothing But the Miraculous

We often begin a new year with expectations, some new and some carried over from the previous year. Maybe we begin without any because we can’t bear the possibility of disappointment of unmet expectations.

The number one way to make sure that the World Race is the worst year of your life is to carry around expectations. Whether they’re good, bad, or somewhere in between, the one thing that you can expect to come to expect is that your expectations will be absolutely destroyed.

Initially, I expected to be in a hut somewhere not eating well, and never showering. I was placed in a gorgeous Romanian cottage (a large one), with a shower at my disposal, and WiFi.

Whatever you are expecting when it comes to your team, you can throw that right out the window. Somehow God manages to place you on a team with people you’d never expect to be sleeping next to for four months straight. 

Ministry? Forget it. When you expect to be busy, you find yourself with ample amounts of downtime. When you expect downtime, you’re sorely disappointed as you’re working from morning ’til night on a variety of random ministries. We were given a schedule at the beginning of this month, only to toss it away immediately as our contact has legitimately changed every four days due to the Christmas holiday.

The World Race is a roller coaster, and an incredible exercise in letting go, going with the flow, and relying on the Lord to provide you with literally everything.

A few days ago, we visited a place called the Home of Hope. It’s a women’s homeless shelter… more accurately, a shelter that gives homeless women a place to die with dignity…