Seeking and Finding

What a year?!? Who knew that this time last year I had no idea where I would be or what I would be doing. A short term trip to India would have seemed far fetched, but if you had told me I would move here, I probably would have laughed in your face. I knew that my heart was with other nations (India wasn't one I had in mind), and I knew that God was capable of anything, but there is always that place in your mind where you think it will happen 10 years from now. The sudden nature of everything that happened has literally blown me away. 10 months after the idea of a two week trip was planted in my mind, and approximately $25,500 later, I live in a foreign country and have a job that I never could have dreamed up. The whirlwind that has stormed my life in the last three years has done the unexpected and the ideas and plans I once held seem like a comical memory. It's comforting to know that God really does know us better than we know ourselves. In all my efforts to find what I was meant for...grasping at this profession or that, all along he was pulling me closer and closer to contentment. I've always held the idea that we are meant to do something we love, that we enjoy, and that has purpose. So many times we work for the money, we work for the security, we work for a million reasons that are really just our effort to make something of this life that we've been given. Who knew that tiny belief, that God had designed me to be happy and fullfilled, would cause me to be unsettled in anything but what I was created to do. In seeking the kingdom, what's good, right, lovely, and full of God, your desires and His are one and the same....He gives you everything you could have hoped for and more.