Rest and Trust

Well, it has been a great week! It has been great to be able to spend some time with my parents and close friends. This next week, I am planning to reconnect with more friends, now that the jet lag is finally over.

I also found out that I will not be able to work at the job that I worked at last summer. It seems that they are too far behind in the project that I was working on, and I won’t have enough time to complete it while I am home. This does of course, cause some financial worry, but I am not overly concerned. God has taken care of me so far, and I have no doubt that He will continue to do so. I also think that He has other plans for me this summer. This past school year has been a wild roller coaster ride. There has been good and bad, and with all of that I have found myself exhausted. I really believe that God may be telling me to rest this summer. I am going to use the time to rebuild myself and get charged back up for the next school year.

One really cool thing happened. I was looking for a place to work out. My parents joined a gym a few months ago, so I asked if they could check into the cost of working out there for a few months. They told my parents that I could go there for free! I was so excited! No financial worry there either.

I’m also going to study Chinese very hard this summer. I want to try to learn a lot in these two months.

I also went to the eye doctor yesterday. He told me that the cornea problem that I have is easily solvable. I have opaque spots (like scars) all over the cornea in my left eye. I just have to take two types of eye drops regularly for the next two weeks, and that should clear up my cornea and restore my vision. I was so thankful to hear that!

So, this summer will be a good rest! It will also be used to prepare for what is to come in September. I may not always understand some of the things that God does, but I know that I can trust Him implicitly. His plans are so much better than anything that I could come up with.

“You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.”
-Debbi Fields

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