I sit here on a Saturday afternoon and am I finding I am content yet eager with where I am in my life. I am a social work major and I LOVE IT! I sometimes find myself feeling ridiculous because I am so in love with this major and the work that I am doing and the things I am learning. I have never felt anything like this when it has come to honestly anything in my life. I have been excited and wanted to make myself love my classes and the things that I have done in the past but it only seemed to a false excitement. It took me getting into youth ministry to be exciting and passionate about working with middle school and high school students, and now I find myself so in love and excited to go to youth group on Wednesdays. As much as I love youth ministry, I never had to go through that process with social work. I knew that the moment I walked into that class my heart was in it and I knew that this was where God was taking me for the future. Interestingly enough last night at the Way, a college ministry of Solid Rock Fellowship Church, the message was about Jonah and his expectation of his life and how it was supposed to all play out but yet it never did. For me this has happened. I had this idea of what my life would be and I told myself and everyone else that my major would not change because I knew this was where God was calling me, into youth ministry. But everything changed and God took that piece of me and showed me that I do not fully understand his plan and that there may be something else God wants me to do besides or even alongside youth ministry. This is exciting and yet scary because it is not at all what I was anicipating! But isn't that how God is, stable yet a mystery. Always doing something that is beyond and above the way we often have planned out.
This week has been a crazy one. We had the retreat last weekend and then daylight savings time during the retreat which meant I WAS TIRED! I also turned 20 years old on Saturday and that was crazy! I am so old now, just kidding. I feel old though when I am around my youth girls who are only 12! I had a few days this week that were really slow and not much homework to get done so I kind of relaxed and tired to catch up on my Heroes watching! (SO INTENSE!). My Wednesday was filled with volunteering, class and then youth group! Then Thursday night I camped out on the Quad and signed up for Jr.'s Abroad trip and froze all night long! :D But it was so worth it! I am going to Rome and then to Berlin for my trip and could not be more excited! Next MAY!!! Then yesterday, Friday, my parents came over and we went to the Olive Garden for lunch and then headed to Target and bought a BeachCruizer bike!!! I rode it all over Target and then came back to Fox and went a bike ride with a couple friends! Today is a nice relaxing day with coffee date in the morning and a clean room and then the Women's Basketball game at 3:30! Overall a great week and filled with God's grace and loving face on every moment, good, bad and ugly!
Well Peace Out till next time!