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Friday, May. 11, 2007 - 1:42 p.m.

The Best is Yet to Come

Sometimes in life we realize something's missing, but we don't know what. Perhaps these moments come more often than we care to admit. Occasionally, we reach a place in our lives where we're able to embark on a journey to find what we're missing...or to find ourselves. As I enter my last weeks of pregnancy, I've been doing a lot of reflecting on the last few years of my life, how things have changed, how I�ve changed, and on how I�ve become the woman I am today.

I remember clearly the moment back in 2004 when I realized something was missing in my life. It�s a moment I�ll always remember. In the weeks that followed, I did a lot of soul searching, praying, and thinking. I thought about the various twists and turns my life had taken that had helped me to arrive at this crossroads. You see, at that point, I was just a few months away from my MBA graduation, something I�d worked hard for and was convinced could be a turning point in my life. My career was progressing, although I began to realize the toll it was taking as I climbed that corporate ladder. And in one moment of clarity, I realized that I�d spent the last four years of my life running in the wrong direction. I suddenly understood what I�d done. I had made all my decisions based on me, on what I wanted, never truly consulting anyone else and never being open to what God had planned for my life. And I decided that things had to change.

When I set off a few months later for South Bend, Indiana, for Holy Cross Associates orientation, I found myself wondering if I was running away from things or toward something. In hindsight, I can now clearly see all that I was running towards � I found myself during my time in Phoenix, but that�s not all I found. I got to know God in a way I never had before. I came to understand the importance of my personal relationship with Him. I learned to value my family and friends more intensely. I discovered depths of pain I never knew existed and the enormity of human need. I became more deeply conscious of the dignity of every life. I began to crystallize my priorities and how I wanted to life my life. And all of these things prepared me for meeting my soulmate. On that fate-filled day in June, I was ready for my future husband to walk into my life.

Since that day, there have been many unexpected twists and turns. From Phoenix to London to Austin, there were certainly moments of uncertainty and trials we never expected to endure, but here we are, nearly two years later, more in love than ever and ready to welcome our first child into the world.

It�s been an amazing journey, and I know the best is yet to come.



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