Have you ever been in a situation where you knew the right choice to make, but everything in your life pointed you in the other direction?
Welcome to my life for the past few months. In February, my parents decided to make the move down south. My whole childhood was in Illinois, and I had just moved to an apartment in Wisconsin. I was working two part-time jobs and being offered a full-time position at one of my workplaces. It would seem that being a recent graduate I should be jumping at the opportunity to continue in a full-time job, living near close friends, attending the church I had grown to love while at college, and investing in new people God had brought into my life.
But no. Instead, I decided that I needed to make the move as well. Was it easy? Absolutely not. Earlier that school year my parents had mentioned that they were considering the move and I sobbed. No part of me wanted to live in the south. I had finally landed a job that I loved doing, and I could see how God was using me in Wisconsin.
But by the time February/March rolled around, I knew that I needed to move too.
Now here I am a few weeks after moving to South Carolina. I feel settled in, and even though leaving Wisconsin was hard, I can see God’s blessings in my life.
I had to learn, by living it, that sometimes we make decisions that everyone else in our life will question.
Almost every one of my friends was begging me to stay. I was offered to make my current job a Graduate Assistant position so that I could stay longer. I was even told that a whole handbell program could have been mine! On paper, I had every reason to want to stay. But somewhere along the way, I had to accept that what we want is not always the plan that God has for us.
Nothing about moving has been easy. I have cried a lot. I am so scared to make new friends, and even more scared to find a job. But I know I am not alone.
Surrounded by the clutter of other people’s opinions and my life’s circumstances, God showed me that I can live in the south. And I can actually enjoy it! (SC is much prettier than IL)
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