Life is something that can change in an instant. That change can be positive or it can be negative, or it can be both! There are moments in time where the decisions we make will change everything or just a simple thing for that day. Going on The World Race is one of the bigger decisions that will change everything in a sense.
To catch you up on my life, I just finished college majoring in American Sign Language/English Interpreting this last summer and have been in the stages of figuring out what I want to do with the education I received. More importantly though is figuring out where GOD needs me with the skills he has given me.
Right now I am working at a Deaf School where I can have the opportunity to pour into the kids there almost every day and give them that encouragement and support that any kid needs. I am also working at Caribou Coffee where I have the opportunity to pour into the lives of my co-workers, and both hearing and Deaf customers. God has put me in these places for a reason I have learned that recently.
After graduating college, did I see myself back at Caribou Coffee rather than working as an interpreter? No, but guess what? It has been a great opportunity to bless those few regular Deaf customers who now have someone that knows their language. It has also woke me up to the need for people to learn sign language. God has a plan for everything, even if we think what we are in now can’t be used or not what we had pictured.
Something many people ask after graduating, that I have also been asked after telling people I am back at Caribou Coffee is, “What’s next?”.
This has always been a hard question for me. Life has so much change and sometimes we don’t know what’s next. Other times we just want to stay where we are at, where we are comfortable.
That is not what we are made for though, we are made to confide in Him, not in the comfortable.
That is part of my reason to go on this world race, we never know the impact one person can make (that person being me or someone else). This is one year, one chapter, where God can change me in ways I never would expect. It may not be the best time for my interpreting career, but I know in God’s timing it is perfect.
What “should be” the next step would be getting an interpreting job for this next year, but that’s not His plan right now.
The world standards are not my standards even if they make the most sense to me. Instead, I will listen to where God calls me, and right now that is Caribou Coffee and A Deaf School. In seven months that will be the World Race.
“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the Gospel’s will be saved” ~Mark 8:35
It is great to read a bit more about your story!
Thank you so much for reading it Daralee! I hope to post a few more of what God is doing before I leave too!