I will be leaving July 12!
The summer camps (two) will be first and then I have about a month before school starts on September 10. During the school year, I will be teaching elementary kids, conducting the Jr. High orchestra, and teach some private students, to name a few things. I'm super excited! I honestly wish I knew more and was more experienced, but I guess there's only one way to get experience--plunge in head-first and just do it!
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Change or die!
"God does not call the equipped; He equips the called."
I have officially graduated from Bradley University; I am no longer and never will be an undergraduate student again. For this I am beyond grateful. However, I am sad to be leaving SO MANY people I love. I feel like I am moving on before my time--so many conversations left un-conversed, so many relationships underdeveloped, just begun; so many hearts untapped, so many people I don't know well enough to say good-bye for a while. I love watching people grow and being there to encourage them and I won't be here to witness some of my closest friends and family grow.
Change is inevitable. "Change or die." "Nothing survives but change." My circle of influence is about to change. I have two options: 1. try to hold on to all that I know and clamp tight to those things I feel like I'm losing. 2. Embrace the impending change, the unknown, the new and unfamiliar. Obviously, the second option would be the healthier choice as I cannot in any way hold on to what is passed. And trusting that God works all things together for good, those conversations and relationships that I feel like I'm losing: what I cannot do, He will complete. I trust what has been done in the last year is enough and God will fill in where I have failed. He is not limited by my humanness.
And so I go on to Haiti. I choose to embrace every part of the change that it will entail. Am I afraid? I was. But I have absolute confidence in the One who has never failed me and He has cast out all need for fear.
I have officially graduated from Bradley University; I am no longer and never will be an undergraduate student again. For this I am beyond grateful. However, I am sad to be leaving SO MANY people I love. I feel like I am moving on before my time--so many conversations left un-conversed, so many relationships underdeveloped, just begun; so many hearts untapped, so many people I don't know well enough to say good-bye for a while. I love watching people grow and being there to encourage them and I won't be here to witness some of my closest friends and family grow.
Change is inevitable. "Change or die." "Nothing survives but change." My circle of influence is about to change. I have two options: 1. try to hold on to all that I know and clamp tight to those things I feel like I'm losing. 2. Embrace the impending change, the unknown, the new and unfamiliar. Obviously, the second option would be the healthier choice as I cannot in any way hold on to what is passed. And trusting that God works all things together for good, those conversations and relationships that I feel like I'm losing: what I cannot do, He will complete. I trust what has been done in the last year is enough and God will fill in where I have failed. He is not limited by my humanness.
And so I go on to Haiti. I choose to embrace every part of the change that it will entail. Am I afraid? I was. But I have absolute confidence in the One who has never failed me and He has cast out all need for fear.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
yes, a blog...
This is my blog. To state the obvious. If I feel so moved, this is where I will keep you up to date as to my Haiti travels, life lessons, and insights. Feel free to follow or not. I won't be offended if your thoughts are, "yet another blog". Enjoy! :)
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