While I'm waiting...

I love the song "While I'm Waiting" by John Waller.

It talks about continuing to worship and serve the Lord even while you are waiting for blessings to be received and prayers to be answered.

Things I am praying for right now...
*Making it through school! This semester I have made an A on every test but one and I made a B on it. I am very burnt out though and just ready to move on so my "real"life can start.

*A husband and babies! ha! For right now I just settle for babysitting precious Ashton and Emerson, but that job won't last forever!

*Africa. Children are my passion and children affected by AIDS in Africa are always on my heart. I really really really am hoping to be able to go to Kenya!

Sugarland!

So, I told myself yesterday that I was going to start taking my camera everywhere I go because I am jealous of everyone else's really cute blogs and last night I had the perfect opportunity for WAY cute pictures and did not have my camera with me!

So my friend was an intern at the OK Gazette and she gets free tickets to stuff all the time. Yesterday at 4:30 I get a text to inform me that we are going to see Sugarland...for FREE!!!
We had to be there at 6:00 so luckily I looked decent enough to have time to get where I needed to be. It felt kind of nice to do something on such a short notice...maybe I need to be more spontaneous, but if I am makng myself be more spontaneous, does that take away the spontaneity of it all? Anyways, the concert was really really fun. They put on a great show.

Early Childhood OSAT next weekend and Gary Allan the weekend after that. Maybe the Zac Brown and Eli Young concert will make its way in there too?!?! =)

Patience

For the past two years I have gone on mission trips to Matamoros, Mexico with my church over spring break. My life was completely changed and my passion for traveling and working with kids is even stronger now. I am very excited to finally be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel and be almost finished with school, but the more I think about it the less I really want to teach.

I love kids and have always known that working with them is my passion in life but I just have a hard time believing that being in a classroom is going to feed my passion for traveling. I continually catch myself saying that I can't wait until I graduate because then my "real life" will start...then I will know what teaching is really like and if it is really everything I need it to be. I get so impatient and want God's complete purpose for my life to unfold NOW. I want to be married now, I want to have kids now, I want to be traveling the world now. I just don't know what to do to get there.

God has really shown me though, that if He revealed everything to me now and showed me step by step everything I need to do to get there that I would no longer seek after Him. I would no longer seek after His guidance, wisdom, and knowledge for every step I take and decision I make. I have to remember that I have been placed where I am now for a purpose..for His purpose...and that everything else will fall into place at exactly the right time...His time.