Looking ahead....

It is my final semester of my undergraduate education...
Wow! where has the time gone? Its quite amazing to think that I have really been attending CSS for 4 years already and i will soon be leaving.

So many people are asking the question of what will I be doing once I am done and graduate in May.

i was blessed this past summer to have been given the opportunity to work as an intern down in Rochester at the Mayo clinic. I learned so much about myself and about nursing that when I left there I knew instantly I wanted to head back down there and work once I was done with school.
As my summer came to a close and I was heading back to school I began trusting God with everything in my life. I began seeking his wisdom and direction of where he might want me next year.
Maybe that would mean he wanted me down in Rochester?
Maybe he wanted me in a totally different state?
Maybe he wanted me back home? Or in Duluth?
I prayed a lot about where he might want me placed or what he might want me doing.

Then when I came back to school I was offered the opportunity to work with an organization at school and perhaps begin working mission work on college campuses. When this came about I was completely at a loss of what to do. I didn't know if God was leading me in a totally different direction than nursing. But I had to be willing to go. And so I continued praying. This time adding the thought that I might not be needed in the nursing field at all.
Through much prayer and reflection on God's word as well as listening to many sermons my eyes began opening up to the need I feel God leading me to.

I began feeling called to Rochester again a couple weeks ago. i don't know how to explain how I knew exactly what God was leading me towards but I began to see that he wanted me down there he would make it happen and he most assuredly would never leave my side.

I believe God is shaping me into who I am as a woman in Christ and he certainly has given me a spirit willing to lead groups and people. But I also feel that he is not calling me into the typical mission field most people think of.
But rather he is calling me to the mission field where I will be the minority. Where i won't have someone I can talk to about my faith necessarily but rather be a light in the darkness to people who need his hope.