Anyone that knows me, knows I love science. I loved science from day one and fell in love with research by seventh grade. I was the kid in high school who took extra science classes so that I could avoid taking art (a real thing we could do in my high school). I graduated with a degree in Genetics and have been working in the medical field while I attempt to pursue further schooling in science- a Master’s degree in Genetic Counseling.
Everyone said I would get in; they had no doubts (this was meant as the sweetest compliment). If I’m being honest I didn’t have many doubts either. I was confident in my application and absolutely positive that I would make a good Genetic Counselor. Despite my confidence, and everyone else’s, I was not accepted into the program.
In these years I’ve been home preparing for and applying to graduate school, I’ve prayed that my next steps would be made clear. I prayed that I would be able to move on from Pawleys Island to “better” serve the Lord. I was confident this would look like school. But I would pray that even if the answer wasn’t school, that it would just be made clear.
Days after being turned down for the master’s program, I was accepted to the World Race. And here I am preparing for the coolest adventure ever where I get to travel the world and serve people across countries and cultures – a dream come true. And yet I’m having a hard time letting go of the science, of graduate school. I thought I’d be totally fine if the answer wasn’t grad school (I mean I even prayed for such things). I said it out loud to multiple friends. Well friends turns out I was wrong. Giving up grad school, even to go on this crazy cool adventure, has been difficult – it is difficult.
So here I am living out that God’s plan is indeed greater than my own. Something I do believe and have said many times in the past, but it’s different when you have to walk it out. It’s hard to move it from head knowledge to heart knowledge. It’s a process, one I will continue working on and growing in.
In all of this, I am confident that the World Race is the answer to my prayers of “what’s next.”
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You are going to do amazing things on this journey ahead of you!!! God will guide you through it all!!!
Thank you Skyla!
Sometimes it’s hard to accept God’s will for our lives, even when we know in our heads it’s the right thing. Sometimes, we won’t know until we step fully into the Kingdom why it had to be the way it was. Thankfully, eventually we’ll know and it will all make sense. Till then, we grow in faith and trust that God is good and has good plans for our lives, even if He doesn’t let us in on those plans (Jer. 29:11)