An Era of Change

2012-2013 has been a crazy whirlwind of change! I started 2012 planning on graduating from college in May, take a job at the church I was attending, and go on my merry way through life. Boy does God sometimes surprise you! I sometimes wonder what God was saying to Himself up in Heaven as He heard me repeatedly telling my plans to my friends and family. I wonder if He chuckled cause He knew He had so much more for me up His sleeve. Things started changing in March/April when I realized I wasn't going to get the job at my church that I had planned on. Silly me...instead of trusting God to have something better for me, I panicked and took the first job I found...doing something that I hate, but at least making a paycheck. I contracted myself to a job through May 2013...at which point I can almost see God groaning and shaking His head at such a foolish child. You'd think after five years of being a Christian, I'd be a WHOLE lot better at this trusting and depending thing....
Well, over the course of the next eight months, I ended up working one full-time job and between 3-4 part time jobs. I was starting to think this was how my life was gonna look when God pulled something else out of His sleeve. I got offered a job in Oklahoma. Oklahoma?? I've only lived in Florida and Taiwan...I can't live in another state! But...working on the trusting thing...I took a weekend trip out there to look it over. Within a couple weeks of the visit, I was pretty sure that this was where God wanted me. I made up my mind...and the next day got a phone call from one of my best friends offering me a job that I had wanted for 7 years!! I couldn't believe it!!! Not only was it a job that I had dreamed about having, but it paid SUPER well! So once again, I had no clue what to do....I was working an awesome theatre job that was giving me an awesome reputation, I was making good money teaching, I was involved in an internet radio ministry that was touching thousands of lives, I was getting calls every couple days with job offers from people high up in the theater industry, AND now I was getting offered my dream job! I told God that He had to help me...I couldn't make this decision on my own. Boy did He step in... Literally, within two days of asking God for help, everything started to fall apart. I got fired from my awesome theatre job, the radio ministry started down a path that I wasn't interested in going, and the job offers quit coming in. The only thing left was my dream job.... After ALOT of prayer, I felt like I needed to get to a place where I could be involved in ministry that was more my style (techie production stuff). Where I live has no place that I could do that. So, I took the offer to move to Oklahoma!
I am scared to DEATH! But at the same time, I am SOOOOOOO excited about God's leadership in my life and the doors He is leading me through. Leaving The Lyric Theatre (my dream job) will be one of the hardest and most painful things I have ever done in my life...but I know that it will be totally worth it since I am following God.
But now...if He doesn't mind...I would be totally fine with Him slowing down this whole changing thing until I catch my breath.... =D