Moving Forward

AZ, IL, IN, OH, and back to IN!!

How ya'll doing? It's been a while since I've talked about my life so here ya go...
I was in AZ over Thanksgiving. I helped my parents move into their new house. It was a good time, minus the whole muscles killing me thing. My brother, Vinny and I got to go to an NFL game which was exciting!
When I got back from that I stayed up in IL through Dec. 4th or so.
Since I've been back here I've been working and keeping pretty busy. This past weekend I went to Trent's place in Ohio and hung out. I just got back from that on Monday night. For his b-day I got him concert tickets for Bill Gaither, so saturday we did that and some Christmas shopping up in Columbus. It was good times. I got to meet his family and a few friends too. His niece's are so freaking cute.
So now I"m back to work and life in Indiana. Everything is good these days. I'm really looking forward to my parents coming up this year for Christmas! AND Michelle (bff who I haven't seen since June) will be in town, so it'll be awesome to see her and hang out with other high school friends. John and Ashley will be in town. It's bound to be fun! Then for my B-DAY I'm having some fun VIPs come in to hang out and go out for dinner. New Years Eve whoever comes for my b-day will be staying and coming downtown. I'm excited. I've never done anything really cool on New Years and since I'm not a partier I don't like to go to huge parties where everyone is drunk, so fireworks at Navy Pier will be cool.
So anways that's what's been going on with me for the past month or so. Life is good. It's moving quickly, but I think I'm content. I have a job possibilty at a church in Illinois. We'll see how that goes. I've still been looking for jobs and praying hard-core about where I can best be used. I'm looking forward to knowing that sometime. It's so easy to get in a rut and be complacent about things, but I just gotta keep moving forward.
I see lots of people around me who are settled in with families and jobs and are set in their lives. Somedays I think that is the best place you can be, BUT somedays I have no interest in that at all. I could see myself moving somewhere just to move and learn another culture. I don't want to feel like I have to settle like everyone else. I want to be adventurous and have fun and do it all for the glory of God. It's hard to always want that though... you know? Especially when some of the most important people in my life are only encouraging me to be settled. I'm not like my sister with one kid and one on the way. Or my cousins who all have families of their own. I'm not even like my brother who is just working to live. I don't want to work to live. I want to work to make a difference in other people's lives. (Cliche? Maybe a little.) Maybe that means sharing that with someone else and maybe it means moving to a remote city in Mexico by myself. I'd like to think I can do anything I want with whoever I want or don't want.
This is coming out all anti-family and like I don't want to settle ever, but that's not what I mean at all. I could get married and do the same things. I just like the thought of options and going where ever the Lord leads me. I've been the kind of person who lives my life for others for so long that this seems foriegn for me, I know. I'm so scatterbrained and back and forth a lot too. Maybe tomorrow I'll be okay with moving back to IL and living with my family for a while. Maybe tomorrow I'll know what I'm to do with the rest of my life. You can't live on a maybe though. Everyday you live for yourself, is one less day you live for the Lord. If I'm not living everyday for the glory of the Lord, what am I living for?
This was definitely not the direction I thought this blog was going today, but you'll have that I suppose. There's always a lot going on in my head and this is what's on my mind today.

a little P.S. my high school is going though a rough time right now. A couple of very influential teachers and coaches have passed on just in the last few months. please by praying for them and the school.

posted by Moving Forward @ 2:09 PM