Guiding my Steps: How I ended up in the middle of the Indian Ocean

God always has a sneaky way of lining things up. A lot of times I think God laughs at us when we get up set when our plans don't go through. Is hard to understand that God has better and bigger stuff for us and that failed plans are really a segway to something way better. It just takes us trusting God to see it that way.

I entered Gordon as Accounting and Business major and soon realized that I was not made for the business world. My mentality was sooo different than those in my class and I figured something in here is not like the other, something here just doesn't belong...ME! So I made the decision to switch majors and stumbled along a semester in LA and saw that it was under the Communication major and that was that! The main reason I switch to communication was to go to LA.

So I decided I should do it my fall semester of my senior year, since I wanted to spend my last semester at Gordon. When I went to apply I wasn't even allowed to apply...well that sucked! I couldn't believe it! The main reason I became a Communication major was to go to LA and it wasn't like I reached the door and it was locked, it was that I didn't even make it to the door! I was devastated! Now I had heard about a semester in Sri Lanka that summer, and in a split decision, right after hearing I couldn't apply go to LA, I asked if I could sign up for Sri Lanka and to my surprise I could.  The interesting thing was that God had been talking to me about trusting him that whole semester.

I had been receiving one constant message: God was guiding my steps. I had heard that same message everywhere. In chapel sermons, in songs, in conversations with friends, in readings and the freakiest was on a Fortune Cookie on FACEBOOK! EVERYWHERE! One after the other, over and over again. I was very upset that my main plan had been flushed down the toilet but God kept reassuring me that it was going to be all right, that HE had a plan.

Sri Lanka taught me sooo much and it literally changed my life and my view on things I didn't even realized I was struggling with. It changed my view of my role in the church and on my own personal culture. It was a split second decision and one of the best!

The great thing was that I did make it to LA, the time I had chosen was just the wrong one. I can't imagine going a different semester, I wouldn't have met the amazing people I did, or produce the work I did or have any of the life changing experiences I had if I had gone another semester. You see God knew that, and it was my job to simply trust him to guide me steps.

One of my favorite bible story is the one of Joseph, son of Jacob. God had given him a dream and destination, he was to rule over his family, although he was one of the youngest in his house. In order for that to happen he HAD to be sold into slavery. His bosses wife HAD to try to sleep with him. He HAD to go to jail. I'm pretty sure that Joseph had forgotten about that dream God had given him when he was just a child. However God knew what he was doing, he knew that crazy connection and path he was taking Joseph on. If he had never been in jail he would have never met the KINGS cup-bearer. And even though the cup dude forgot about Joseph in jail it wasn't until he was indispensable to the king that he time came! (This story is found in the Book of Genesis). God had given Joseph his dreams for a reason and he hadn't forgotten.

God's timing in ALWAYS on point and it is our job to listen and trust in him because who knows you might end up in the middle of the Indian Ocean like me :)