Burdens

I've been at college for what? Seven months now? I cannot tell you how much I love it. God is doing so much in my life, it's unbelievable. Especially this semester, things have really begun to prosper. God has just laid so many exciting opportunities in my lap. Although my schedule has become ridiculously busy, I am doing things I truly love. As a freshman, I am french club president! and we have so many exciting things planned this semester.. also I start my new job at the YMCA tomorrow and I can't describe how excited I am! Every Tuesday and Thursday I'm volunteering at Boiling Springs Elementary School to tutor two little 4th graders, Hayden and Dawson, in math. They are so sweet and silly and I adore working with them. I also am being paid to tutor in french! This is something that blows my mind, I would have volunteered for such and honor, but I'm getting paid extra cash for it! I'm so happy because it's not just helping them, it's helping me brush up on my french I might have forgotten.

Things like this give me such a satisfying confirmation from God that this, this is what I am supposed to do with my life. I am meant to teach. Without a doubt in my mind, the Lord has called me to be a teacher, and I couldn't be happier! Just the tutoring and working at the Y with kids brings me so much joy because I know it's leading up to what I'm really meant to do. I cannot wait for what the Lord has in store.

Although I can't contain how happy I am about the wonderful things going on in my life, a ridiculous and heavy burden has fallen on me. My dad has informed me that we can't afford for me to go to Gardner-Webb anymore. Just as everything was going so wonderfully in my life, God just slips it right out from under me. I ask myself why? and the only comfort I can rely on is the fact that there is a reason for everything. God obviously has bigger plans in store. He calls the shots, and even though I don't want to at all, I have to obey. I must follow His guidance, and His plan. I've made great friends here at GWU, and this place has become like my home.

I know God has great things in store, and all I can do is trust. This verse gives me comfort:
"Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. " Psalm 68:19

-Christa Danielle