Alrighty. I was going to write something completely different this week and wait to tell people about what is going on in my life, but new developments have made me want to share this even more now.

Those who know me well know that I have a great desire to travel and teach English specifically in China and South Korea. Throughout my years at school, my major changed so many times and I really had no idea what I wanted to do until God really revealed to me during my Junior year that teaching English as a Foreign might just be the right path for a culture and language lover like myself. Since then I have been entertaining and pursuing the idea of teaching English in Asia off and on.

Currently, two of my best friends are over in China teaching English together. My first friend went over at the beginning of my Senior year of University, and I was extremely excited for her, but I wished I could go too. At the end of my first semester, our other friend joined her, and I was again excited but frustrated that two of my best friends were off on this marvelous adventure together and I couldn't join them because I was still stuck in school.

Well, now I am graduated, and I had decided to take some time to really figure out my life and while I still wanted to go to China to teach English, I had decided to wait a year or so and save up some money before I went. I was still really confused what to do in the interim process, and I have been job searching trying to find something that would work well for me that I would enjoy. I had attempted to finish my TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certification during my last semester of school, but it was too much in addition to work, and I had to take a break from it. It was my plan to take it back up again in the fall.

Well, I say all of this because only a couple of weeks ago, an opportunity fell into my lap that I didn't think I could resist. I had only a few days before attended a worship night at my church, in which we were challenged to nail our something we were struggling with to a cross resting at the front of the stage. I felt God leading me to nail something to that cross, and what I left there on a small slip of paper was the word, "Worry."

Within the next few days, God opened a door and dropped an opportunity in my lap and I am now trusting Him to lead me to China within the next few months. I have had to reorganize my plans for everything that I was thinking I would do for the next year or two before I made it overseas, and cram new life preparation into a short period of time of three-to-four months.

I am scheduled to restart my TEFL class on Monday the 18th, and I am working on getting all of the paperwork figured out so that once I have finished my TEFL program I will be able to get my work visa in a timely manner. I am also trying to save up as much money as I can since this transition exceeds my current budget and I will have student loans coming due soon. I just figured out today, that I will not be able to stay at the temporary full-time job that I was working, so this greatly decreases my originally planned income. Finances are tight, time is short, but God.

Please pray that God will hold my worry nailed to the cross and that He will be glorified in a child walking through His open door and being provided for greatly by a loving Father. I am very excited about this new adventure and I invite you all to rejoice with me, pray with me, and praise God for his abundant provision. The next few months will be busy and rough, but I know they will be well worth it.

That is all for now. More to come, I'm sure.