I'm dangling...but He's holding me

My "official" full teaching week in 6th grade is complete! It was a very good week and I've been learning so much about teaching and about myself in the process.

This brain of mine has a lot of thoughts swimming around up there. (What else is new?)

Last night Amanda and Kathi and I met for dinner to have a heart to heart time. We used to be in prayer group together last year but this year we don't all get to talk and pray together like we used to. Last time we got together was in November (?) I think... So it had been a while!

I was telling Kathi about where I'm at right now, and how I'm in this "major transition" season in my life, and I just don't know for now where I will end up.

She told me this AWESOME analogy that I'm still meditating on. (She has SO much Godly wisdom, and I admire her SOO so very much!)

She told me that really, for the past four years or so, I've been in this "bubble"... called college. Now though, that's all about to change. I'm moving into a completely new season and it's like I'm a plant needing to be "planted" somewhere else.
God has pulled me up out of this soil (or pot) that I've been in for the past four years and right now it's like I'm just dangling. He is holding me but I don't know where my "roots" will be planted next. She told me about how there is a lot of growing that happens and faith and trust that develops in this period of "dangling".

Boy, is she right! I've felt exactly like that. I know it's time to "move on" to another bigger pot so that I can grow even more, I just don't know where that will be yet or what it will look like. It takes a lot of faith and trust to believe that God will plant me in the perfect place and wherever that is, He will help me to grow even more.

She said something else that I really loved. Something to the effect of "..and if it doesn't feel like the perfect fit, it's a time of preparing you for that time and place that will be the perfect fit." I just loved that.

So here I am, just dangling, and trying to be patient as God leads me where He wants me. :)


I've been thinking lately about how short of time is truly left until I graduate! I realized I don't even have anymore five-day weeks left. Next week, and the following week we have a day off for Easter, and then my last week is over on Thursday. Eeeek! So excitingggg and very crazy to think about.

It feels like such an accomplishment and I just haven't been able to help looking back at my whole college life and thinking how much things have changed. The people in my life have changed, come and gone, relationships have formed and gotten deeper, and I'VE grown so much I can't even believe it. I feel like a different person than I was when I came here as a freshman. God had blown me away time and time again. I have been stretched way beyond my comfort zone and been challenged in ways I couldn't begin to imagine. Even so, I know those times are nothing to the life I still have ahead.

I was planning on doing a "fill in the blank Friday" on this post, but I don't want it to get TOO long so I'll stop there..!

If anyone who reads this is interested in buying a Japan relief coin purse that I've made or has questions EMAIL me! I'm still selling them. :)

I'll end with the thought that I had today of blogging. I just LOVE it. I love reading so many encouraging blogs and stories of other women in Christ. (That's means YOU!) It really fills me up in a way and puts a smile on my face. It's also been an amazing outlet for me and my own awesome record of my "ups and downs"..if you will. :)

Be blessed!!