Looking Back

I can not believe the end of this educational journey is coming to an end....at least for now anyway...for I know me ...I will be back!

Thinking about what the last three years have been like gives me a sense of pride and gratitude for having taken the biggest risk of my life thus far. Having left the comfort of a full time job with benefits, to at the time, nothing really was huge. I often thought did I make a mistake did I make a wrong turn? The journey has certainly not been easy. Unemployment, depression, loneliness, fear, illness, and doubt were my companions that first year. Deciding to follow my heart and my passion however led me to grow and explore my soul and life in ways that have so profoundly enriched me. There were those that believed in me that really have turned out to be my divine appointments, people I believe where placed by God to help me along on this path. To Him and them I am grateful!

I have been thinking of the ways in which I changed in this process. The best way I can put it really is...I died and came back to life anew. I am not the same person anymore. Thank God that he is faithful to complete in us what he begins, otherwise I would not have had a chance. I am alive now and living in ways I did not anticipate. The challenges were heartbreaking and scary. I had to push myself in ways I had not before. I cannot say I have arrived just yet ,but I am certainly on my way, to a new life with new adventures along the way, and challenges no doubt, but I am on my way! I have a joy now and a faith for what is mine and will be mine that was not there before and for that I am eternally grateful.

To anyone out there that may actually read this post. I want to encourage you to live life with passion and purpose. Take the risks that you need to take. The cost may be high but the reward is worth it and the payout even greater! Have faith that there is a God, who loves and is committed to you being the best that you can be, and jump off the comfort zone and into living! My very best to you out there....and may all that is good and pure follow and sustain you....