Update on Things >

An update, because it's been a while.

My heart is full and it's heavy and it's anticipating and waiting and grateful.

This past year plus some months, I have been working at a daycare. It's been my mission field. It's been the place where my love has been poured out, daily. If I'm being honest, it's not what I wanted. I would rather be a thousand other places, a hundred other foreign lands. Instead, I'm five minutes down the road from my house. That's where this season has had me. It went from a part time job to a full time one. I've grown and so has my heart. It's strange because yes, it is my job, I get paid to be with kids all day but it also my heart. Children hungry for love and hungry for Jesus are my heart.

For so much of this time at home, I've been struggling with "okay, what's next, God?" Because I know that I'm not meant to work at a daycare forever, I know the call on my life. I didn't know when I came home from Haiti two Februarys ago, that I'd be home for this long. I might not have come home if I had known.

After so much seeking and asking and praying, I've been led to Austin Bible College, where they have a program for Orphan Care and Management. Who knew? A school that has a program for exactly what I want to do? 

The plan has changed a few times already and I'm sure that's not the last of the changes. But as of now, I am starting classes online in January. I'm going to be completing the Comprehensive Certificate - two years of intensive training in Orphan Care and Management.

I'll still be working at the daycare until at least the end of this school year.
and then, I guess things will happen as they happen, whatever He wills.

(also, I found out about my school from one of my co-workers, so talk about God-ordained!)

Thank you, Lord!