Some Big News!

Well, I have some big news to share! I found out (finally! after waiting several weeks) that I was accepted into the Master's program for Social Work at USC! Patrick and I were trying to figure out how this was going to fit in to our "plan" and finally we left it up to God. I mean, He does know best after all ;) The thing we're praying for now is 100% tuition and books covered by scholarships. YES, I do believe God will provide all of that if not more! What's even cooler: I found out this morning that I will be finished one year from September if I take the 2 summer semesters. Done and done.

As I briefly reflect what I had planned for my life, and the new direction (new only to me of course not God) I'm headed, I hear a very clear answer to prayer. I was taken out of what I had planned for myself, and into a place where it was time to get more of God in my life. For this past year I've felt unsuccessful, unaccomplished, with no purpose or direction. Finally I think God got fed up with me and gave his words to my mentor Keri. She said, "I think you just need to get your priorities straight." Ouch. She was totally right though. You see, its not about me! It's not about how I feel, or what I accomplish, or how many degrees I have to my name, or even-get this!-my desire to work for God's glory! It's not about any of that. It's about God first. That's what I was missing. As huge, as awesome and powerful, as mighty as God is, he's also personal enough to desire more of me and I finally got a clue. So I've spent some real God time with my Creator and a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders! We have renters moving in the 28th, but no house of our own yet. Am I worried-nope, not even a little bit. In 3 weeks I'm taking on a full time (school) and a half (teaching) schedule. Doesn't phase me. How am I going to pay for school? God is in control!! We've put off having kids for another year as I finish my master's...ok, this probably worries some-but not me :oD Instead of worrying about all these little things, I'm focusing on one thing: Am I doing what God asks of me? Not because I'm afraid of him. Not because I'm told I have to. Not because I'm "brainwashed." But because I desire to please the very One that gives me breath to do all these things. And that my friends, is a dense person who got a clue.

As you go into this weekend, remember that Easter is not about the peeps (although I love them so!) or the bunnies. It was Jesus Christ who died to give you the choice to know God in a very personal way. It's always a choice-otherwise it wouldn't be love. I'm proud to call him my daddy, and worship Him in remembrance of the day the world was changed once for all.