You're Leaving??

I start this blog as I close one chapter of my life and begin another.

I have spent the past two years at the University of Mississippi earning a degree in Secondary Education—with an emphasis in English. I invested my time and heart into my sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta.  These two years have been full of many ups and downs, and everything in the middle. I’ve experienced the terrible feeling of being so homesick, that you physically become sick. The craziness that is Recruitment at Ole Miss…both sides now!  I’ve made friends from all over the country, and met people who have changed my life forever. I could go on and on about what I have learned and the funny things that have happened,  but, now it’s time has come to take the good times, the miles and miles of memories and move on.

The huge change, Ole Miss to University of St. Thomas; Education major to Theology major.  From public University, party school, to a small private university. It could not be any more of a 180 change for me.  

Why the change you ask? Well, sometimes, you just have to go where your heart leads you. Everyone’s heart sings a different tune, and when you are happy with what you are doing, your heart sings to its content. When you’re not happy, you hear no music. When I got back to Ole Miss in the Fall, there was no tune being sung, but I pushed it to the side, and ignored it. I ignored the nudge, and hints that He was trying to give me till Thanksgiving. I was blessed to be able to go on Beach Retreat with the teens from my parish, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. I was able to go to Adoration for the first time since I had left to go to school. That was a huge sign that I had been ignoring. Long story short, I finally stopped talking, and listened to what He had to tell me. It was time to move on to bigger and better things. Time to do what I felt called to do. I was going to leave Ole Miss, and go into Theology to one day be able to go into Youth Ministry full time. You really can’t go anywhere in ministry without a Theology background. It’s not something that happened just over the summer, or just at Beach Retreat, if anything the flame and desire for it only grew stronger. I got a taste of it, and want to do more. It is something that God has placed on my heart, and I am more than happy and willing to follow His plan for me. Right now, His plan has me in Houston, and I’m quite content and happy.

Romans 1:5 talks about “obedience by faith.”

If I have faith, I believe He has a plan.

If I have sincere faith, I believe He has a better plan.

If I have obedient faith, I believe He has the plan.

Faith tells me I’m His. Faith tells me He’s my Dad….my Savior…my Future…my Hope.

Obedience tells me to return the trust. If I place no trust in Him, who I am to say that, I follow Him?

So after a year of stumbling, and trying to find my way, it is time to come Home and be His obedient daughter.

I know that as I go along in the journey, there will be many small stumbles along the way, but its knowing that each stumble is meant to teach you something. And, there will be lots to learn this summer…getting my feet a little wetter by get involved in Youth Ministry…

"Let no one have contempt for your youth, but set an example for those who believe, in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity." 1 Timothy 4:12