http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org Alissa Sawyer - The World Race January 2008 en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:15:07 GMT 30 http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=new-blog http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=new-blog Since I really don't want to take up the space on the world race website anymore, since I'm not going, I'm going to start a new blog elsewhere in case any of my wonderful WR friends (or anyone else) want to keep up. Check it out at http://www.movealissa.blogspot.com Many Blessings, Alissa Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=butterflies http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=butterflies During training camp for the World Race, we had to partake in a "surrender walk." We each had to find something in the wilderness that would represent what we would be surrendering to God. I chose a turning leaf that reminded me of seasons changing, which represented the World Race. I needed to surrender the race to God and whether or not He wanted me to go. On my surrender walk, I saw a web in a tree. It wasn't a spider web, but a web full of caterpillars in cocoons. I immediately Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=back-from-training http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=back-from-training Well, I am back from training...early! Why, you might ask? That's a very good question.  I was so excited to get to training and to meet all the people I'd be living in community with for a year around the world! The moment I got there, the people were amazing, but something was just wrong. I felt like I had hit a brick wall and everyone else went right through it. I was stripped of the desire that I had to go on the World Race. I was very broken about that and saught the Lord morning a Wed, 5 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=how-much-god http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=how-much-god This doesn't relate directly to the World Race, but really it does, because this is God preparing me for what lies ahead. I've been reading The Art of Being, by Constance Rhodes, the founder of Finding Balance. I'm now interning at Finding Balance, so she gave me this book to read. It has different stories of different Christians, mostly (if not all) are Christian musicians. I was reading the story that Sara Groves wrote, and she talked about asking God how much He loves you, right now Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=nighttime-prayer http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=nighttime-prayer A few weeks ago my three-year old nephew was staying with me and found his way in my bed before falling asleep. I asked him if he wanted to pray with me and he smiled and said, "Yes." This is unusual for him. When we pray before eating dinner, he never wants to, but I guess if you put temptation in front of someone, they'd rather devour it than pray (ooh double meaning!). Anyhow, so we prayed and after the Amen came all the questions. "Where is God?" "How can He get in my heart?" "Why is Sun, 8 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=support-letter http://alissasawyer.theworldrace.org/?filename=support-letter   June 27, 2007 Dear Family and Friends, As many of you know I'm graduating and had planned on going straight into graduate school to get my Master's in counseling. Funny thing is, you can make a plan, but you never know what can happen! Over a very short period of time, God has revealed to me that He wants me to do something incredibly different and incredibly rewarding. He has called me to travel the nations! This has definitely been an overwh Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT