Thursday, January 10, 2008

life plans...

So I turn 24 on saturday. What is that?? 24 sounds so grown up and adult and I am so far from that. I started thinking about it today and did a quick check-up on my life. Is this where I thought I would be at 24?? I ran through my old "life plan" from high school to see how I measure up to my old expectations. My life right now is not even close to what I thought it would be at this point.

While I did graduate from college, it was not the college I thought I would attend. I am not married, and definitely not to the guy I thought it was going to be. I don't own a house and Lord knows I never thought I would be in Tennessee about to move to Nashville. And then there is the teaching thing. 7 years of my life I thought I was going to be a teacher and it has been almost a year since I realized that wasn't going to work out for me.

So instead of being a William and Mary grad, Mrs. Jonathan Allen (don't worry, he knows), high school English teacher, living in my house in Virginia...

I am an alum of two rival schools, single and dealing with feelings for a guy who is proving himself to be pretty disinterested, soon to be unemployed from two jobs, and moving from Nashville after 3 or 4 months to New Orleans, where hopefully I will get a job I love and an apartment by myself that I can afford.

After all that, all I can say is...thank God our plans don't always work out.

HIS timing is perfect and mine is not. HIS plans are perfect and mine are not.

It's going to be a good year.