Monday, January 26, 2009

As life unfolds...

As life unfolds before me and my present becomes my past and my future becomes my present I realize change is inevitable. My closest friends enter the real world with jobs others begin to say "I do" while I seem to be left in the midst of a world that is not my own. As a chapter begins to close the next is left uncertain. Where is love, companionship, and all that comes next? I was beginning to feel alone in this chapter but God quickly reminded me otherwise.

I spent this past weekend with a group of friends smack dab in the middle of the chapter. Old and new we find ourselves struggling with the same things coming to grips with the uncertainty of what turning the page may do.

I'm not sure what comes next: nursing, PA, Africa, some other unknown location where God may send me, I don't know but I am patiently waiting for God to open and close the doors around me.

Thank you to my friends who unknowingly lifted my spirits in a way I wasn't sure anyone could. Thank you for bringing laughter in an abundance, for making me remember the good old days, and encouraging me that life's chapters begin and end at different points and that my chapter is perfectly written by my Creator I just have to let him be the pen and the editor.