Take Your Dreams.....Make Them a Reality

I would be lying if I said I didn't have big dreams for my life. I mean, who doesn't have big dreams for their lives? But I do, I have big dreams. They may not be big to anyone else, but they are big to me. I came to a realization this weekend. It was probably a realization that I should have come too months ago, but alas, it happened this weekend.
For those of you that don't know, I should be graduating college this May. But, as all of my friends walk across their respective stages at college graduations, I will not be. And believe me, I've come to terms with this. Anyway, long story short, I'm about a year off from getting my Associates degree in Marketing. My educational path has been less than ideal, and not what I planned out in high school. To make things more complicated, I haven't been in school this whole past year. Instead, I've been working full time as a teachers assistant. Don't get me wrong, I love my kids with every single bit of my heart, but this is not what I was called to do. AT ALL. I mean you want to talk about a job that stretches a girl.....this has been it. Budget cuts for our system are literally days from being announced. Teachers/Teachers Assistants are speculating, everyone is really nervous to hear. Me, I've known from the very first day that my job would end at the end of the school year, and that I wouldn't be back because there wouldn't be a position.
Luckily, I've known where I stood all along. Unfortunately, I've been living in this dream land that the school year was going to last forever.  Reality hit when I realized we had 28 days of school left. 28 days. 28 days until my contract expires and I am back to the drawing board. And can I be honest....I'm not one bit sad. I'm a little scared, because I don't have anything lined up, but I'm ok with this chapter of my life ending.
I say all of that (I know I can ramble sometimes :) but I say all of that to say this.....I'm back at my starting place, but my starting place is where I get to dream, and where I get to make my dreams into a reality. There is not a person on this earth that can be responsible for my dreams except for me. I want to graduate from college.....I'm responsible. I want to land that job with a marketing firm.....I'm responsible. Come August, I'll be back in college, finishing my degree. I have no idea where I will be working, or where I will be living, but I do know that school will be taken care of. I'm trusting God to work out all the little things, and He will. Because my God, has a plan, and we're on the same page about it.
What are your dreams? You're never too old to dream. Be responsible, and make them happen.

Britt



Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
...Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain