Chapters of life

It was grad at Bethany Bible College today and my sister, Steph graduated with honors with an excite program certificate. Way to go Steph!! I'm proud of you!!


My two wonderful friends also graduated, with their Bachelor of Christian Studies!! Congratulations Randi and Karis, I'm proud of you as well!!

I remember last year at this time, I was a wreck! It was the time for good-bye, and since that was my last year at Bethany, I was quite emotional. I also remember feeling nervous and a little scared for what was to come, a new chapter of my life was beginning and I had no idea how the story was going to go. The uncertaintly wasn't something I liked but God was faithful! In high school I thought I had my life all planned out, I was going to go to bible school for a year, go to school for interior decorating, get married, and eventually start my own decorating shop. Sounds perfect right? Ha, it's funny how when God gets ahold of the pen, he changes the direction to His ending. Giving up the pen up for me has not been easy and I've tried to take it away numerous times somehow thinking I knew what needed to come next. I'm still in the process of learning to give that up, however I know now that giving God that control is when the most wonderful and amazing things happen that you would've never imagined. Not to say that there weren't times of struggle, and when the story seemed so bleak, yet what He does promise is faithfulness, and a constant love! And not to say that I have more direction in life, that with Him in charge, I know what's going on.... nope its more like the opposite. It's scary to not know what's coming next, what I should be doing in a year, or even next month. I guess that's why they call it trust, it would be too easy if He showed us every detail of our story before we had a chance to live it and learn from it. So I used to think that I needed to have every detail of my life planned out, to make sure I had at least a 5 year plan however the more God changes my desires, the more He softens my heart, the more I like the idea of letting Him have complete control of my pen and not worrying so much about how my story is going to go because He is the greatest Author that will ever be... and I already know the ending. An everlasting life with Him, what could be greater than that?

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. "
2 Corintheans 4:16-18