So much has been going on since I last posted a week ago. I’ve paid off one of my loans in its entirety, and I put another $1000 down on another loan paying off the interest and a little bit of principal. I finally posted my web site. I’m trying to link these together. I want this to be where people can go and get updates while the website remains an in depth profile. The church has agreed to give me 700 dollars a month until December and the Knights of Columbus are raffling off a week vacation at a beach condo any time during the months of September and October, and the Youth will be doing a little bit of fundraising for me at the parish picnic. I can’t tell you how much the support of my home parish touches me. Thank you all.
Earlier this week I wrote the sister’s letting them know that I would not be able to pay off all of my loans in time to enter this August. Giving both me and the sister’s the freedom to move forward and make plans for the future. Deciding on if I should email them then or wait until they contacted me at the end of the month was where I was last week when I made those first few posts. My heart was definitely dragging. I knew that I wasn’t going to be entering this August and it hurt so much that it was affecting everything. Even the way I viewed myself, no doubt a casualty of this type of discernment. (The Devil is always looking for an opening.) But as I moved through the motions I began to realize how necessary this break between college and the convent was, the amount of spiritual growth that was going to happen.
I must say I love how God works. I’ve been shuffling my feet worried that I was giving up to soon, worried that I wasn’t holding up my end of the bargain, scared that maybe I hadn’t done enough to raise the money necessary. Then I sitting down for dinner at a Chinese restaurant and the fortune cookies were handed out. Do you like where I’m going with this? I open mine and laughed. “:-) It is not in your character to give up :-)” You would have laughed too.
Things are still really busy around here, but I’m making it a point to update at least once a week. Let everyone know what’s going on in my life. No promise though I already put in the disclaimer that I’m horrible at keeping up with these and a year is a really long time.
For now…Peace Friend
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