Of course, it wasn't always like this... In fact, for the first half of the year... I was taking a hiatus from my full-time academic education. I was looking for a job, but it didn't take me long before I registered myself in school again... but this time was a little different. I mean... who enrolls themselves in a 12 month career program that you may actually love when you can be in college for a minimum of four years for a degree that won't give you even half the training you need for the career you want to pursue?? uhhhmm.. I DID. I worked at a law office once before for a couple years and loved my job, so when I saw the opportunity to do a short-term career program for Paralegal certification... I decided to go for it! It beats sitting in class... through a 2 hour lecture of how mixing 2 kinds of chemicals in a beaker becomes a lethal poison, endangering the lives of experimenting scientists. Don't ask what those two chemicals are, I didn't do too much paying attention. I doodled a lot on my notebooks instead.
Gradually from March, when school commenced, to this very moment... MORE things started filling up my time and so much so until I no longer had "time." I finally settled for a job opportunity at a law office for one of the highest ranking and most respected and recognized attorneys and law firms in Southern California. I felt like Thumbelina amongst giants there... I still do, but by God's grace I have been able to adapt well to my job and I can't believe it's been almost 5 months since I first started there. I remember the moment when I was on the phone as I got hired... I was visiting one of my girlfriends! Couldn't have asked for a better moment to receive such good news. It has been pretty rough, but hey... aren't all diamonds found there?? I am truly blessed that my employers have allowed me the chance to learn and practice a new area of law as this is a growing opportunity to build my personal career experience.
Although, these have been life changing events in my life, there is nothing more life-altering than sharing all of these moments with that SPECIAL SOMEONE. hmmmm... if you only knew...
Well... I shall leave all the wonderful things I have to say about this SPECIAL SOMEONE for another post sometime in the near future. It's been a wonderful year... filled with lots of friendship, blessings and love... All through and by God's incomparable grace.
I leave with just this sweet reminder for all my young and dear friends and family... even those who aren't young... God's Word applies to ALL.
Ecclesiastes 11 - New Living Translation
The Uncertainties of Life
1 Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you.
2 But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead.
3 When clouds are heavy, the rains come down. Whether a tree falls north or south, it stays where it falls.
4 Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.
5 Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.
6 Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.
Advice for Young and Old
7 Light is sweet; how pleasant to see a new day dawning.
8 When people live to be very old, let them rejoice in every day of life. But let them also remember there will be many dark days. Everything still to come is meaningless.
9 Young people, it’s wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do.
10 So refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is meaningless.
This is one of my favorite passages in scripture... dedicate your life to God... NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN LIFE... NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE...
**live for HIM; HE died for you.**
much love. xoxo's
