Keep the Faith

 So New Orleans was so great. I loved seeing my friends who I had not seen in over a month! It felt so great to be with them and do service for the lower nine. I can't believe within a span of 48 hours I was in New Orleans with my sisters, in NC for Justin Bieber, and then back Blacksburg feeling like I never left. It's a mixed bowl of emotions with being back in Blacksburg. On one hand I feel like I have been away for so long but then on the other hand I feel like I never left to even go home. Texas was great and I am so lucky to have two beautiful homes filled with people I love so much.
 
 On a different note:
First week of classes: Check.

Where has the time gone? It's already the end of January. My classes this semester are going to be wonderful; they are so focused on learning more about how to be in the helping profession and they feel so purposeful. Being in these classes and learning how to give myself to strangers is really tugging at my heart and making me crave Africa more and more. I'm trying to be more alive in the moment so instead of counting down the days until I depart for Malawi, I am going to take it one day at a time and just remind myself how blessed I am to be going on this trip but to appreciate that it's the "now" and "here" that's even making this all happen.

I have been thinking a lot lately about what I'd like to do after I graduate college. My parents really want me to go to get my Masters in counseling and would prefer that I come to Texas. My heart is definitely open to their wishes because they are truly the two people who make my world so whole & I would love nothing more than to be near them all of the time. The dilemma is that I have these other dreams of expanding my horizons all over the world. I honestly would love to travel the world and teach young children who don't know much about love and to just give all of mine to them. I know that my future is going to be bright and full of so much love and happiness but I just get scared that what I'm putting together in my mind isn't exactly how it's going to be. I am giving my full faith and trust into fate's and God's hands. I am sure that what I am supposed to do will pop up out of no where and present itself infront of me. I guess I am just going to have to be patient and take it one day at a time.



Xoxo