6 year plan...

I was listening to KLove the other day and they were talking about advice you would give to someone you know who is graduating high school. Everyone was calling in talking about just being "yourself" and "finding your way". Which is good. I am all for finding out who you are and where you want to go... but at the same time you need to hear the real stuff. You need to hear about finding your passion and going after it. You need to hear that everything is not going to be easy and that's why it's all worth it. But I did hear one thing I liked...

This girl was talking about how her family is very supportive. If she wanted to go to college, they would help. If she wanted to start just going on missions, they would help. They kept telling her that she could do anything she wanted... but she was waiting for the advise she needed. Then one day she was talking to her dad about the fact that for school her teacher had asked them to all come up with a 6 year plan to share with the class. You know the whole, "I'm going to Yale, then off to change the world." Well she didn't know what she was going to say. She didn't want to get up there and say, "I don't have a plan. I'm just kinda living till I find the place I want to be." Her and her dad talked about life and what she wanted out of it. Then her dad said something amazing...

"If you live everyday for God, you have your 6 year plan. Because He will take you where He needs you."

She figured out what she was going to tell her class. That's where I am now. I don't know where I will be next month, let alone in a couple years. I'm living where I'm needed. I'm living where God has placed me through hard situations. And I'm loving it. Even though I'm stressed out most of the time. And I get irritated with the things that I don't have or can't do. But I know that it's all worth where God is leading me. So I'm walking everyday in His footsteps just to make it one day closer to His goal for me.