Direction

So for about 6 or 7 months I've been tossing the idea around about going to grad school. I'd love to get an education or a counseling degree, because I'm passionate about both of those things and I think I'd be good at it. The decision is looming out there, but for some reason God has decided to put the decision on hold until now... again. Now it's been brought back up in my life and I have to consider it even more, and I really want to do this. A good friend gave me wise advice this weekend, and he didn't even know it. He told me that if you really want to do something, you would just do it. Seems so simple.

Some breaker in our house blew out today. There were random rooms without the lights working. When we flipped the breaker back, the lights blew out.... in the bathroom. Of course there were no extra light bulbs to be found, so there is our bathroom.... lights out and no hope for light until someone makes a trip to Wal-Mart for bulbs. Well, I really needed to use the bathroom to get ready for bed. I would have to shuffle around in the dark trying to put toothpaste on the toothbrush right and wash my face without being able to see my face.... So what to do? I walked in the bathroom and did it all in the dark. If you really want/need to do something, you would just do it.

Weird analogy, I know. But God gave it to me at the right time. Even though there are questions in the way of this decision, if I really want to do this, if GOD wants me to do this, I would just do it. So I'm just going to do it. And if doors close on me along the way, I can rest assured that it all had to do with this journey God has me on.

One of my favorite quotes:

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he replied: 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.' "- M.L. Haskins

(I didn't even plan this quote with the whole bathroom story. Oh it's so perfect!)