FAITH
Its not all rainbows and butterflies
its sometimes discouragement and fears
many days its filled with tears, that keep dripping like a leaky faucet
Faith isn’t easy to hold on to but I am not tossing it!
its not a side order for me in this journey called life
its the main dish, I wouldn’t feel full without it
Except after that meal, I still need it, I crave it
Even with the conflicts in my heart that I might feel
is this for real, or for fake?
Am I dreaming or am I awake?
sometimes I have to ask myself, is this worth it?
to not toss that 5 letter word
filling in that blank, the unknowns of this season, time and place
Faith, its a mixed bag
NO matter what though
I will choose to carry it, have it, embody it, live it, and be an example of it!
FAITH!
It was a Tuesday, July 24th 2018 to be exact and I woke up feeling very very
discouraged. Why? You may ask. well lets just say my fundraising journey for the
world race hasn’t been easy. It hasn’t been a pocketful of sunshine- but it has been
a pocket full of abundant prayers, love, encouragement, and all that jazz!
Well on that very day, I went about my day pretty normally. I got up got ready,
made myself lunch for the day and headed to work. Even with the feelings of
discouragement, I had a feeling something was about to happen…
in conversation with a coworker- I was explaining to her about my funds and the
deadlines and how I was given and extension till this coming Friday July
27th. I held it together during that conversation. There is no way I would cry at
work in front of the kids! Well during a conversation with a different coworker- I
broke, I lost it, I couldn’t hold back the tears as I was talking about the fundraising
faith walk I have been on. It has not been easy! I have done everything from t-
shirts to yard sales to pop up shops! The funds just haven’t been speeding in on a
nascar track! They have been chugging in on Thomas the train and apparently
Thomas is tired!
Rewind, back to my work day- I work with kids- so I can’t be on my phone alllll day
that being said, the day was moving right along and it was lunch time! YAY I was
hungry and wanted to eat! I also wanted to take a peak at my phone!
When I did, I saw that I had like 50 million messages from texts to multiple
messages from my J squad peeps in our group message! There was no way I had
time to read them all, (actually read them) so I scrolled- and saw a text from a
teammate and it said : YOU MET THE DEADLINE?!?!?!
I thought to myself “what the heck??”
Then I told my coworker, I think my squad mates helped me get funded!!!
She was like what? Then a few minutes later she was like, someone tagged you in a
post-you want me to read it
to you? Or do you want to read it? I was like I will read it, then I was like ok you
can
read it, she read it out loud….
Wow, I was speechless!!!!!! I really didn’t know how to react!
I definitely was excited, but also in shock! & it didn’t end there! Naptime
finally came and after I got one one of 2 kids I was sitting between asleep I was
able to check allllllll the messages that I had. First I went to the group message and
saw the usual 20+ messages, scrolled to the first one and this was it:
Talk about mind blown!!!! I was beyond that!!!
WOW!!!! I was in full shock mode, GOOD shock!!!
God provided all that I needed and $130 dollars MORE than I needed to reach
the $10,000 goal! & he did it 3 days BEFORE I needed to have it!
A Fundraising MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!
Did my faith fail me???
NO it DIDNT!
What did it do?
It just grew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God is SO SO SO SO SO SO Good and I am launching on the WORLD RACE with my
squad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank YOU! Yes YOU! For all your love, encouragement, prayers, support, donations, wisdom and allllllllll the things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am Thankful, Grateful, BLESSED and still processing this miracle and the fact that I am leaving this island in a week (from today July 25th, 2018) BUT one thing I
do know, GOD does truly work all things out for the good of those who love him!!!
This makes me so happy Cimone!! You’re coming with us!
This makes me want to cry! Such a blessing! God has huge things planned for you! Your going on the World Race!!!
literally crying. i’m so happy. MY GOD!!!!!! He is so worthy to be praised.
Very inspiring! Great account of how God moved! More to come…it’s just the beginning!
Yes Laiken! I am so excited to see you soon! Praise God!
Same girl! God is so Good! Thank you for having my back on this crazy journey! Love you and I can’t wait to see you and hug you!
Yes girl!!! I cried, and will probably be crying lots more throughout this journey!
Thank you for praying and believing with me! Love you sister! See you at launch!
Rhi!!! Crazy how you and I were originally going to be squadmates! & Now I am getting ready to launch and you are coming home soon! So cool that we gave stayed in touch and followed each others journeys! God is so good!!!
Thank you mom! Yes, just the begining! God is so good!!!
Still speechless, still crying, still so joyful. Wow God likes to show off and use His people to do so!