God Has A Plan

I've been having trouble lately with figuring out exactly what I want to do with my life. I came in my freshman year with the idea that I was going to be a Biology major and go to med school, but after my first semester of Biology, that dream was short lived. Then I thought maybe psychology.. or sociology.. or music.. and I ended up deciding that Business would be a nice reasonable major to have.  My dad got undergraduate and graduate degree in Business, so I felt like it had to be in my blood somewhere and that if anything, it would make him happy.

But this past semester, this past Summer even, I started really thinking about this decision. Although I was enjoying my business classes, I couldn't get the science field out of my head. My mother is a spanish interpreter at a hospital and every time she would come home from work to tell me about her day, it just made me think about how I wouldn't mind working in a hospital.  Unlike some people, hospitals don't freak me out and I always had that mindset that one day I would be helping people by working in one.

Once I got to school this past Fall, I was actually enjoying studying for my Biology course (which I decided to re-take for a better grade) and I wasn't having as much of a difficult time comprehending everything. Long story short: I ended up deciding that I did want to go back into the science field, but I now had to decide what aspect.  Up to around Thanksgiving time I was trying to figure out the answer to yet, another major life decision.  I ended saying that I was going to keep my Business major and just take the courses needed to go to graduate school for nutrition because one of my main interests is working out and eating healthy and I felt that it would be a good fit for me.

So there it was, I knew what I was going to do and I was ready to start that journey!

But then I came back to school for my Spring semester and decided to get lunch with a friend of mine.  We were talking about our course load and I told her everything I needed to take to get into the graduate school I wanted, and she told me she felt like she thought she had to take a lot of the same ones.  Later that night, while I was eating dinner with another one of my friends (who is also a biology major), she came into the cafeteria and she told me she had to take all the courses I listed minus one.  Both my friends asked me why I wasn't just a biology major because it seemed like a lot of courses to take.  I didn't believe them and I thought I could continue on with my plan, but when I came back to my room, I sat down and looked at the major cards and added up the hours I still needed... the sum was about 90 hours.  That meant that I would have to take over 20 hours for the next 4 semesters of my college career.  *insert mega stressed out and astonished face here*

That was it for me, I thought that I had everything figured out but my life plan was crumbling all around me and was getting all jumbled up in a big mess.  I wrote a Facebook status basically asking why everything had to fall apart right when I thought I had my life figured out.  I prayed for some guidance and help finding an answer and then decided to go to bed and just forget it all.

The next morning, I woke up to a notification saying that the mom of one of my best friends had written on my status.  She said "Because God is protecting you from making mistakes. We're here if you need us...."

That was EXACTLY what I needed to hear.  It may not have solved my problem, but it made me realize that even though it wasn't what I had planned, God was trying to guide me in the right direction because he didn't want me to make a mistake.  He has a plan for me and he's trying to point me in the right direction.  Even though it may not be executed the way I want, I know I need to lay it all out and things will happen the way they need to.

I know this was a long post for a short message, but I didn't really know how to say it all without the background story haha. But remember, God has a plan for ALL of us.  When things may get bad, remember that.  I know I'm going to try to!