I just finished! I just finished filling out my application to live and work in Korea for a year! I have been wanting to go back ever since I left two years ago, but every time I felt the door nudge open it would just shut (with dead bolts and infrared security). I was disappointed and kept thinking that I was never going to realize my dream. I started a bit of a pity party, and then that got old (mostly because it was silly). Why was I complaining? Just because I didn’t get this one thing? God had been so faithful in everything else. If He was closing the door, it simply meant He had something better in store. So three weeks ago, I willing put down my dream and said to God, “Whatever you want me to do, I’ll do it.” I started looking into going back to school (to add to my degree, which I still will be doing), I started looking at other areas in which I could use the degree I already have. I started planning ways to save so I could do one missions trip every year. I started to get excited about all the possibilities. Then God stepped in and blew my mind, by opening the door I had just shut, with an opportunity I didn’t see coming.  Here’s what I am slowly understanding: God wants to bless us. He wants to give us the desires of our heart (as long as they line up with His will for us). I let go and God stepped in. How cool is that!

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11, NLT).

So what am I thankful for today? That even if He didn’t reopen the door, I still would have been blessed.