Plans for my future

I remember in kindergarten we had something called "student of the week". It was really exciting when it was my turn... I took home my "fill-in-the-blank" poster, proudly announced my new week-long title, took out my colored pencils, and started to answer all the questions in pictures. One of the questions on the poster was "what do you want to be when you grow up?" That was an easy question for me to answer... EVERYTHING. I was a VERY ambitious youngster... I figured out a schedule where during the day I would be a teacher, then a police woman at night. One weekend I would work as a zookeeper, another I would be a mail carrier. Some days I would be a doctor, others a firefighter or a nurse. On top of that, I would paint and sell my paintings during my spare time (what spare time??). OH YAH! and I would be a mom.

I had sense enough in about 1st grade to narrow that down to artist and possibly mother. I kept changing my mind, but the one consistent one was artist. Sometime between 8th and 10th grade, after hearing a woman speak at a Japanese missions conference in Southern California about her works in North Korea, I decided that someday I would become a missionary to Japan, Korea or China... but I gradually forgot about this dream. My sophomore and junior year of high school showed promises that my long-held vision of being an artist would bloom into reality. My art teacher had hopes for Ema and myself to someday make a living through our artwork... at least one of us will be fulfilling our dreams soon =) Not me though! Senior year, art became more of an assignment to me than an enjoyable hobby... this hurt my work greatly, and eventually killed my dreams of becoming an artist. Instead, my interests drifted more towards the human mind, which is why I chose psychology as my major. I wanted to be a social worker or a therapist, and I still do want to be a Marriage and Family Therapist, but my GPA may close that door for me. As for my dreams of becoming a missionary, I have come to realize that I can be a missionary anywhere God places me in life, whether it be in the United States or in another country. My prayer is that I will never forget this calling.

The reason why I am posting this is because I wanted share my testimony about how no matter HOW MUCH we plan out our future, God's plans will overrule ours.

"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps." - Proverbs 16:9