Waiting

I was sitting on facebook, looking through a handful of peoples profiles, looking through their pictures. I see where some are currently…at college, at home, some concerts. Then I go back through who they were and wonder where they are going. Then I stumbled onto a picture of me, 4 years ago.  I think it is crazy how far I have come, how much have changed. Besides the physical things like growing 3 inches, coloring my hair blonde and piercing my lip. I thought about who I was, who I was hanging out with, what I thought was important in life.  I look at who I am now, and realize priorities change, people change, ideas change but the fact that God knows and does it all never changes. I was thrown a lot of crazy things in the past 4 years but looking back on them, I realize that God had my best interest in mind. He brought different people into my life and took some others out.   He brought me to a school, and then put it in my heart to go somewhere else. To think about many different things I wanted to do with my life ranging from a middle school music teacher to a Vet to a youth pastor and having none of them work out. He pointed me into many different directions that eventually lead me to the same place….here.  I think about what I would be doing right now if I never left the first University I went to.  I would be so close to graduating…and I wouldn’t take the few months and give my time to God. I would tell myself “Ally, just wait until after you graduate”. But knowing myself I would then say “Now Ally, you just graduated…how about going in a few years, once you have gotten a steady job”. And you can guess the rest of my excuses there would be many. But God knew all that and made it so every thing I planned myself, with my own “wisdom” would fail for one reason or another, whether it was “I didn’t like the school” to “I can’t go here because it costs way to much”. God knew that I was going to go to Kenya, that I was going to share the Gospel, and be His hands a feet, if only for a little bit.  And I put my trust in HIM that when I return to Minnesota He will lay a path for me to continue my life here or somewhere else, I do not know. But I will wait because God is Great and will lead me to happiness. 

God Bless

-Ally