I decided that it was time to make a little change. New feel, new format, new address — same me.

It’s time for me to get serious, too, about my future. I have been refusing to believe that my undergraduate career is coming to an end, primarily because that means I have to start thinking about my life further than just the next day or the next assignment. I remember being in high school, even in first and second year university, and I had my whole life planned out (my “five year plan” as my best friend Heather used to tease me). I’m not exactly sure when, but sometime in between the end of my second year and the beginning of my third, my “five year plans” fizzled out. I’m not exactly sure why. I guess I just lost interest in “knowing” what my future was going to be. It probably also helped that several plans I made got completely scrapped when a) I changed my mind, or b) circumstances didn’t work out the way I expected. But I am now in need of a five year plan, because my five year plan from the end of high school is just about to be finished.

And so, in no particular order, I present to you the options I am considering for my future:

a) working at Random House in New York doing their associate program,

b) going to Trinity Western University in British Columbia for seminary school,

c) working and living at home for a year and applying to teacher’s college,

d) working and living at home for a year and applying to graduate studies, or

e) completely blowing off any sense of responsibility and work ethic (not to mention cash) I have and traveling the world.

I think we can safely cross off the last of these options . As much as I want to travel, as I have said, my wallet wouldn’t survive the trip. Also, I think I’m ready to start a career of some description. I don’t think I would pursue option d. It would be very interesting and I have always maintained that I wanted to pursue an education higher than undergraduate studies, but I think I’m going to need a break (and again, the whole wallet thing) before I consider pursuing that.

One thing I am noticing as I go along is that this choice is becoming clearer the closer I get. We were able to briefly catch up with an old pastor of ours last summer, and when I expressed some doubt as to what I was going to do in the future, he gave me some encouragement and then told me that God best directs what is already in motion. It doesn’t matter what direction God points me in, I’m never going to get there if I don’t start walking. And sometimes he waits until I do start walking before he points me in the direction he wants me to go. It has been of great encouragement, especially now as I see the truth of it. The closer I get, the clearer my decision gets.

And on that note, it is time for me to get moving