The Plans Are Tweaking

I love when God gives you a plan, but then He tweaks it along the way. The end result will resemble the first word He gave you, but it is better than you ever thought at the beginning. I will still be moving to Nashville, but it seems for something I didn't know He was leading me towards a few months ago. I found a graduate program at a university in Nashville that seems to be what He is sending me down there for. More info on that at a later time.

It also seems the June 30th date will be pushed back a bit as He is leading me towards going back to Ethiopia again. This I have felt for a while. This February will be 2 years since I left Ethiopia and I have been wondering and praying about when I will be going back. I have felt this almost nudge that it would be sooner than I had thought. He told me a while ago that once I am healthy (I have to get 2 surgeries) things will start happening quickly for me. I didn't realize how quickly. I know He wants to send me back to Ethiopia this summer! How awesome is that?! I don't know the exact dates I will be going back, but probably sometime in either June or July.

I am so excited for what He has in store for me. I have had a lot of people tell me over the years (since my first trip to Ethiopia) that what I am doing is wonderful and I am doing great things for these people. Honestly, it's not me. It's God. There is nothing in our human nature to want to do anything like this. It is God's spirit in us that make us want to do things like this. It would be so easy for me to sit and watch all these things happen and not do anything. It is only because of Him I do this. It is my obedience to Him that I do any of this.

I love the people of Ethiopia and I cannot wait to see their beautiful faces again. I cannot wait to just sit with the kids and just be with them and love on them. I cannot wait to be in the most beautiful country on the planet (I may be a bit biased, but hey aren't we all? lol). I cannot wait to be in the place I feel most myself in the world. I cannot wait to be in the place I feel most at home.

And these plans are continually being tweaked. I cannot wait to see what they will fully turn out to be. I just want to continue to be obedient to Him and be a part of everything He has planned for me. During this time of my surgeries and recovery, He is preparing me for what He has planned next for me. I know I will be hitting the ground running once this (the surgeries, recovery time) is all over. I know that may sound strange to some people or even look weird to some people that I will be doing one thing and then going down to Nashville for graduate school. But He has been preparing me for this all along. It is just on a whim I am deciding to do all of this. He has been preparing me, He is the one making the plans He is the once I am being obedient to. This has nothing to do with me. It's all about Him. I don't care if people think it's strange, or weird, or what they think. All that matters is I am being obedient to Him.