The Story Continued
So, lets pick up where we left off. Oh yeah! My heart fluttered and I had butterflies…and I knew during that date this man would be my husband one day. Still September, 2016, not long after that first date and talking every single day, he asked me to be his girlfriend. Of course, I said yes!
As time went on, he was focusing on his career and I was focusing on completing my bachelors degree. Remember I told you he was a little older than me? Oh yeah, by 8 years. The crazy thing is, when he moved to Danville in 2013 it was to start his new job as a PE/Health Teacher and Football Coach at the local high school, while I was just beginning my college career. After dating for a little while and really getting serious, of course it was time for me to graduate college and figure out what I was going to do with my life. Which by the way…it’s not uncommon to not know what you want to do for the rest of your life after college or even for the next 6 months after, or heck even when you graduated college 8 years ago!
May, 2017, I have graduated. I have moved back home for the summer. I was really excited because I was going to be able to do what I love and get paid for it at the same time, which was training horses and teaching horseback riding lessons. The summer flew by and we have spent 4 long months apart. Its time for me to decide my future. Do I stay at home and pursue this career path as an equestrian or do I move back to Danville and experience what could be the greatest love of my life.
It was quite an easy decision for me and I chose love. It was tough and I was still trying to get over my past relationship. I had an immense amount of trust issues and it was going to be difficult for me, but I knew that God would put me exactly where I belonged. And that’s exactly what happened. We are constantly presented with options in our lives and each option we choose has a different outcome. Do we take the path to the right, straight ahead, or to the left? I learned that through prayer and patience, if you seek guidance from God, He will provide you with clarity. It may not be right away, but the closer we are to Him and His word the louder and more prominent that answer will become.
As my new life outside of college and in this still fairly new relationship began, I needed to figure out what it is that I want to do, where do I belong and where is it that God needs me?
See you next time!