Future Plans with a Touch of Crazy
"What are your plans after graduating?" - The most common question for every college senior. This question - understandably overwhelming, daunting, and exciting all at once - looms over our heads and rarely yields a clear response.
I never thought I would be graduating college and saying "I have no idea what comes next." I've always had a solid plan, and I've recently realized how unprepared I am to be restricted by my own plan. I started a small business at seventeen years old, I found my passion and the thing I was made for at such a young age! What a blessing! The only problem is, if you know me you must know I'm a very passionate person, and I have a list of very different things I know the Lord put in my life for a reason. I do know that somehow God has a Plan to bring it all together in a really beautiful way, but I feel as though I'm walking in the dark, holding His hand, and He's only revealing the tiniest movement at a time. Oh, don't we all want to see the finish line sometimes!
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So, there has been two weeks since I wrote the beginning of this blog entry. Life has been all over the place. BUT I would like to let you into my tentative plans for the next year: I had planned to graduate in December 2019, took me a while to decide and during that time I missed the deadline to apply for graduation. So now, I'm finished with school, therefore not enrolling for classes in the spring, but I'm graduating in May 2020. During next semester I hope to be making work and teaching ceramics classes for the Creative Community Center here in Fayetteville. Also hopefully traveling in the WheelMobile - a traveling clay studio in a modified RV - around Northwest Arkansas! This job will start pushing me into the world of Ceramics outside of Academia, PLUS I get to learn how to drive an RV. At the same time I have the occasional opportunity to help catering with a close friend's family business for weddings and events! And for my more consistent day-job I hope to find work in a horse barn here in Fayetteville, because why not? I love to work hard with my hands, and be around the animals, I can't imagine anything better! All the while, I will be volunteer leading for YL at Fayetteville High School.
People used to hear my degree plans, and passions and say, "Wow, how on earth do you plan to do all that?" Its not that they doubted, but I'm sure they thought it was pretty silly to Major in Art, have a Minor in Spanish and Animal Science, and say that I wanted to work for YoungLife forever. How would that make sense? Well, the Lord provided an outlet to teach Ceramics, possibly be an apprentice, cater with a Mexican restaurant, work for a horse barn and for YL horse programs out west. Trust me, if it was my idea, I would be much more focused on stability, because consistent income sounds great. But I know that God gave me my passions so that I can use them for his Glory. How amazing, how FULL is this life I get to live. Bit by bit, as I walk on proclaiming "Thy Will be Done" the Lord gives peace and reveals the immense opportunity a life with Him holds, if only we are willing to give up our plans and trust Him.
A bit of a rant, and truly an attempt to explain my future plans, with a touch of crazy. Thank you for reading this, the fact that I have people following my work and my life close enough to care about a rant on future plans is truly humbling.
Thank you thank you thank you,
georgia