I have decided--well, God has actually decided--that I am going to defer until next January (2013) the second semester of my sophomore year, and consequently, my 16-month internship.
Primarily it is because of a lack of funds for the rest of the year, but it's shaping up to look pretty exciting from my point of view, and I believe God is going to do new things in me.
I am very cooperative, actually. I am actually greatly looking forward to my first year with no shoolwork/homework since I was 4 or 5 years old! I will hopefully get a job at a place I can walko in minutes, with which Bethany students have a good track record, and still have time to do things I have wished I've had time to do for a while, like study other languages--and the Bible, more in-depth.
I will learn how to live on my own, to some extent, while getting to stay in the community in which God has caused me to grow so much the past year and a half. Then in June or July my family will return from Romania for a six-month furlough. Because I won't be leaving for internship in September, I will get to be with them for the full six months, instead of just two or three.
This new endeavor (which could be seen as a lack of endeavor without the right perspective), is pretty amazing considering that it is me. When I graduated from high school I didn't really want to go to college because I wanted to "get out and do something"; especially because the prospect of spending 4 collegiate years in America loomed before me like a bleak and narrow tunnel.
So it's quite a change of heart to have heard God saying that He actually has the most for me to learn in America right now, and realise that with Him life will forever be an adventure, if I'm really following Him and not what I think is best because of my pride.
I have no idea what the next year will bring, and I love it. :)
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