Blessed.

Psalm 145:13b-19

"[The Lord is faithful in all His words and kind in all His works.] The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look to You, and You give them food in due season. You open Your hand; You satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His works. The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear Him; He also hears their cry and saves them."

God truly is so faithful! I cannot believe how good He has been to me. He has blessed me with so many things. The fact that I have been privileged to be at Lee is a HUGE blessing. A Holocaust survivor spoke in chapel today and he kept telling us to stay in school and to pursue an education because so many people do not have this opportunity like we do. We so often take our ability to go to college-- specifically, a Christian college-- for granted. When you really think about it, we are extremely blessed to be here. Gosh, we are free to talk about and study the Word every single day! There are people all over the world who give their lives in order to read even one page of the Bible!

I was walking to work one day this week and had a major epiphany about my job. God has been so good to me! I have the best job on campus. I never take time to really think about it and thank Him, but I did this week. It's challenging to truly consider the amount of blessings we have in our lives.

And now, I have been given the opportunity to move to the Philippines to become a teacher in a school for missionary kids! How crazy is that?!? It has been a stressful week of praying and figuring out what God wanted me to do. I was so overcome by my fear, that I didn't even realize what was placed before me. So many people graduate from Lee and never end up doing what they study to do. I have been given an open door to go out onto the mission field immediately after graduating with a degree in missiology! I have nothing tying me down. Sometimes I look at how people's lives seem to be so together. Friends are getting married, having babies, and starting their lives as adults-- and here I am. I feel like I have finally realized that this is not a bad thing at all. I have the freedom to get up and move to another country. The only one I had to consult was God (and a few people I look up to for advice.)

Anyways, I just had to brag on my God. He is good. Not just to me...but to all of us! We just need to consider all of the things in our lives and really take into account how blessed we truly are.