pray & let it go

     Because I live this crazy, work, school, work, school kind of life... I haven't been able to update you all on something that happened on Tuesday... I GOT ACCEPTED INTO GRADUATE SCHOOL!!! My whole life I have wanted to be a teacher... a first grade teacher to be exact... and so I started college with that goal in the front of my mind. And then... decided I wanted to do something else.... and then again decided I wanted to be a teacher.... So here I am, a senior in college graduating with a degree in Human and Family Development and a minor in Social Work. Knowing I did not want to pursue a career in either of those fields... I pretty much closed my eyes and jumped into Grad School applications for a Masters in Early Childhood Education so that I could still achieve what I originally wanted so badly.
     Let's just say, I have never been more nervous, scared, anxious, and flat out powerless in my entire life through out the whole application process. BUT... From the moment I hit submit on my application, I felt my anxieties just float away. I knew that I no longer had control over whether or not I would get in... ( I actually never had control anyway, I just had the power to use the gifts God gave me to do my best). Of course I was still nervous about what would happen if I didn't get accepted, but I knew God had AMAZING plans for me... and if I didn't get accepted, it wasn't what God had in his mind for me to do with my life.
     But... here I am, accepted into graduate school at ASU and ready to start what I have always wanted to do. I have already picked out a classroom name, class pets, how the classroom will work, and how to help the kids make friends. Whether I am ready for the whole two years of masters work, we'll see... but at least I have the years after it planned out just fine!
     So, my point is... we all have things our heart wants. And if we put it out there that we want it bad enough and we pray about it... God will make it happen... ACCORDING TO HIS PLAN FOR US. But how amazing is that!?!? I never had to worry about getting accepted, because if I didn't, He had something better for me! I just cannot get over the amount of freedom I felt just by giving the control to God. Our lives are not ours to live alone, but to live with Him and for Him... so follow your dreams!


Pray Big!

Alexa