Here we are. Trying to find our call. Trying to find our niche. Always rushed. Always late. I guess that’s why they call it the human race.
I’m no different.
Upon graduating college, I’ve found myself to be swimming around in a whirlpool of career choices and different directions with a blinking sign above my head screaming,
CHOOSE WISELY.
That’s three years, people. Three whole years of being reminded every day that I was not the News Reporter I spent four grueling, tiresome years preparing to be.
Who was I, If I was not who I was supposed to be? I knew who i was
IN CHRIST
But who was I outside of that? I realize it sounds contradictory to ask yourself that question. If you know who you are in Christ, what does it matter who you are outside of Him?
It mattered to me.
And I think that’s okay to admit.
It mattered to me that instead of pursuing a career in American Journalism where I’d be thrown into a perilous position of adventure and heartache(s), where I’d feel alive with adrenaline and change and excitement, I was instead:
A phony French Baker’s scapegoat. And then a 2-year Nanny/jack-of-all-trades. And now a sedentary receptionist with the occasional encounter of human-in-crisis.
And that’s all good and well. I’m fine to be or go or do whatever the Lord wants of me. However, I’d like to exercise my passions on occasion. I need an outlet. Or several. Preferably creative ones.
There have been countless lessons learned in all these experiences. These experiences are just not what I had expected.
[I think they should change the title Great Expectations to NO Expectations].
Noooooooooo. I’m not looking at the glass half-empty. I’m just saying, don’t expect your life to turn out exactly how you expected. A life following Christ should expect MORE than any expectations you’ve thought of for yourself.
So here I am. At a crossroads. Come October, I’m about to embark on a journey of a lifetime. A journey I’ve been waiting for. A journey I never would have expected.
California, here we come.
(For your hearing pleasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-S8CIU7VA).
(or even this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVSEWMurgU).
(and who could forget, my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UcQDUR-fU).
And the beauty of it all is, I finally realized I’ve been in the field of Journalism this whole time. It’s not been American, but it’s been better. It’s Jesus Journalism. And, honestly, there’s no story I’d rather tell. Or no subject I’d rather report on.
Let’s report for duty. Let’s tell His story.
