Looking back, Looking ahead.

Tonight--for some strange reason, I decided it was finally time to clean out my facebook message inbox. Let me tell you, it's been a LOOONG time (aka the creation of my facebook account). A few pages in, I found several e-mails from the time when I was living in Tulsa...and a few immediately following. As I was reading them, I remember how devastated I was that MY PLANS weren't working out, and yet a big part of my heart just giggled inside.

I have such awesome plans. I'm a great planner, as it turns out. But it took the failure of my plans to convince me that God's plans were much better. In the two and a half years since I moved back home, I have had the time of my life. It's funny how one day, you can think that you life is over--nothing fun left to happen and then all of a sudden--God. It amazes me how through little situations every day, God reaffirms that I am heading in the right direction. For me, becoming a teacher is about so much more than providing an education for children. It's about using the talents and desires God instilled in me to shape my life into the Life God had planned for me from the very beginning. I don't know about you, but I think that is just basically awesome. :)

...Just my thoughts.