Transitioning into this season

The last few weeks have been anything but easy. Transitional times are usually difficult, but this time the transition has been drastically different than it is has ever been before. I’ve gone from being a student to living back on campus but not taking classes, the people who I've known here for 4 years are gone, and I am getting to know 100 new residents. I’ve gone from working a job where I am busy all the time and constantly working with people, where I get to travel week in and week out and see students come to Christ every week to working a job where the work I do each day is completely opposite of what I've loved about my summer job. I am doing all of my work and doing it well, but I just don’t feel like I am being challenged and am struggling to find my job utilizing my gifts and abilities. Through this time I have really questioned what it is the Lord wants my career to be. I have had several different thoughts, but just am unsure as to what to do with those. Most of them require going back to school, which I never thought I wanted to do; however, I don’t want to limit God or limit myself by being unwilling to go back to school to learn so that I can enter a different career field.  I am open to new doors opening. We’ll see what the Lord has for me, right now I am just asking and trying my best to listen and hear His voice. I am trying to do my best where I’m at and to be content in the Lord. I know He is the controller of all things and I can have hope in Him. 

I am grateful for an awesome team of RD's and RA's and I have enjoyed the challenge of getting to know the girls in my buildings, it is slightly overwhelming and often hard to know where to begin. I love though the opportunities that come with that role, and am looking forward to the relationships that I get to build. I am encouraged by the conversations I have already had with residents and RA’s and am excited that I get to be a part of such an important time in the life of these women on our campus. I love the energy and purpose that job brings.

I am doing a lot of great reading, and enjoying having time for some of that. Learning a lot both through working through the gospel of Matthew in the Message translation and being challenged by Linda Dillow's book- Calm My Anxious Heart.

I’m really trying to learn patience. Patience at work, patience in my role as an RD, patience maintaining old friendships, and making new friendships. I feel like God has really been challenging me and asking me if I really am willing to trust Him in all of these areas. I am just trying to give up control and wait on the Lord to speak and to lead. 

I am thankful for this fall season. I love watching the leaves change colors. I love the cool mornings. I love that pumpkin goodies are available everywhere! I love the smells of fall. So, while life has its seasons  and as hard as they may be I know they are good for us, I love that the weather also has different seasons. I'm thankful for the beauty and the blessings of the season of fall.