I wanted to start a new section of my blog to share the beginning, middle, and (Lord knows if there’ll be one) end of something I’m calling “The Journey.” I don’t really know what that means, or where exactly I’m journeying to, but I do know that something is happening. I’ve recently had a lot of really big things occur in my life, that, when I look back on the events that led up to them, I realize were meant to happen all along. Here’s what’s going on:
1. I’m going to Africa. In exactly 29 days. And I can’t believe it. I have 29 days to tie all my loose ends in Nashville, take my finals, and leave the country without
even returning home first to go fulfill my 5-year dream of living with and working towards understanding people I’ve been serving and loving from a distance.
2. I’m also going to France. For a whole school year (i.e. August of 2014 until May of 2015). This one was totally unexpected and developed in about the span of three weeks (from the initial seed of an idea to a full-blown application process) and I’m so excited about my spontaneous/somehow-was-always-the-plan planning that I just get all beaming and excited every time I talk about it.
3. I started to lose myself and find myself around roughly the same time. I have this life coach (actually referred to as my Storyline Coach – as I started working with him after the Storyline Conference) who is supposed to help me live a better story (or at least find a plot line). But somehow every time I talk to him I have a different idea of who (or what) exactly I’m talking about. I tell him what I love, who I am, and what I’m passionate about. Shoot, I even nailed down my goals one time. But then he asks me how I’m going to start achieving my goals and where I’m headed, and just when I start to figure that out, I totally change directions. Which I’m very good as doing, by the way. Coincidentally, I also got back into my yoga practice, started doing some reading (and by some I mean I started about 5 books at one time), and decided I was missing something huge (by that I mean, well, the true nature of God), and decided to make some more radical changes.
So, here’s what we’re looking at: spontaneous, traveling college girl knows everything and nothing (at one time) about what she wants to do with herself or her life, and she will now begin “The Journey” that is growing up, figuring out how to live, and finding herself. All aboard. The blogging starts now, follow if you dare (and if I actually keep consistently updating, we’ll see how that goes).
The Transition Artist 