Laundry, packing, and more laundry is on this weeks docket. My younger brother and I will be swapping rooms before I head out early Friday morning. His exact words when we were discussing me leaving were, "Yeah of course I'm going to miss you, but hey I getting YOUR ROOM!!" Ha-ha that is my brother, brutally honest and hilarious. I am so looking forward to the new chapter God is writing in my life, but so blessed by the ones that were already written. My family & my friends have all helped mold me into the 20 year old I am today.
My parents and I have talked about how after this week things will never truly be the same again, and I know they are so right. When I return home at the end of the summer, one of my younger cousins will be away starting his collegiate football career, my brother will be a senior in High School, one of my very awesome friends will have just settled into his new apartment at SIU-C and will no longer live just 4 minutes down the road from me. Yes, things are changing, but that is how we learn, grow, and live out the call that God has for our lives. There is a time to wait and a time to go.
Funny enough, I am experiencing both at the same time. I know it is my purpose this summer to go forward and share God's love with so many others. However, after the summer, I am waiting for a direction and the next steps of my life. I was given an answer last week on the college I had been planning to fulfill my Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design, and now my life after summer is filled with questions I haven't received the answers to. So GO and WAIT is my theme for now, my anthem of sorts.
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4
-Kathy
