Yesterday, I posted a great video from Kim Daniels on "never going back to OK". She posted it with only seven days left of her World Race experience. Just before returning home after a year of adventure, she wanted to pay homage to this past year around the world and declare that she will never be able to be the same again. Others are saying the same thing.

Matt Snyder writes:

I guess I'm not the same. I went to Starbucks today to wrestle down this reality with myself because I just quite didn't want to believe it... or own up to it. Sometimes it's hard to face something so drastic and dramatic. It usually comes with some kind of responsibility attached. This whole Kingdom thing for
instance - there's no escaping it. There's no going back. Once you're in, you're in. That's it. Face it.

And so I'm having to stare my demons in the face, one whom looks like  a spitting image of myself.  It's my old self battling with my new self; the flesh man wrestling to the ground with the Spirit man.  And it's an epic battle on my insides.  I squirm when I think about it because it's so loud and sometimes I'm afraid people might hear it and look at me like I'm crazy.  Probably if you looked in my eyes you could see it.

And I knew that this would happen eventually, that there would be some gigantic collision between two worlds.  The challenging part is that it's only still in thought at this point.  I haven't even set foot on American soil, on familiar romping grounds in Wichita, KS.  I'm still wrestling with the idea of it all. Read more...

This is what we hope for when we send young people on the World Race - that they would come back "wrecked for the ordinary," totally ruined for a "normal" life and consecrated to the kingdom of God. Find out more about the World Race and the upcoming trip in June at the WR website.