enjoy the ride

As I was sitting at the CofC graduation Saturday, many thoughts ran through my mind....

Two years ago I sat in the same place...loving life, not listening to a single thing the speaker said, tossing a beach ball around, and thinking, "surely, we have the most carefree and fun graduation"---which we do:)

My college years were great...I met my husband and my bridesmaids (aka life long friends)...what more could I ask for?

During those four years I went from wanting to be an optometrist to an interior designer to a psychiatrist to a genetics counselor to an accountant to a high school math teacher and finally to a middle school math teacher.

This was my thought process growing up---you graduate high school, go to college, graduate college, and get a job---done deal...& you live happily ever after.

Boy was I wrong!

After two years of teaching, the Lord is telling me to close that chapter in my life.

 I'm a bit naive...& just now realizing that there will always be a fork in the road--a choice to be made.  So...what's my next step?

There are many uncertainties about the future, but what Bradley & I do know is that next year we will be doing ministry together...& for this I am more than thankful.

Along with that decision is a few things I'm praying through....

when I stop and think about where my passions lie, three things pop into my mind.

1.  traveling to other countries and telling people about Jesus

2.  listening to people & getting to know them 

3.  family---the expansion of this will be MANY years down the road

The Lord is teaching me that he has given me certain passions and gifts, but that doesn't mean they all have to be fulfilled at once.  I have to constantly remind myself to slow down.

We're trying to figure out God's timing with our passions.  Next year, I'm looking into taking classes at Columbia International University towards a Counseling degree (refer to passion #2)...I'm very excited about this, but it depends on if we jumpstart passion #1.

It's kind of exciting that there's always paths to choose and options to think through in this thing called life...enjoy the ride!

"It is the Lord who goes before you.  He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you..."  Deuteronomy 31:8