A Re-evaluation of Direction

Looking back on the pathway that I have taken to bring me to this point in my life reveals some interesting things to me. When I was about the graduate high school, I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. The only thing I had expressed interest in was animation for movies or games. Just so happened that there was only one private school that sounded like they offered something like that... and once I was accepted, my direction completely changed.

I feel like there are times in our lives when we are "called" or drawn or impressed to do things purely for the reason that they will lead you to something else. Case in point, above, using computer animation to bring me to IWU. But I think that once that happens in your life, you start to expect it. Maybe make it into an excuse for the pathway that you start to choose for yourself. An example of this is that I would never have been involved in the theatre program at school if it had not been for my major including some of their classes. But perhaps in total overcorrection, I believed that I had been drawn to IWU to get involved in a major that would draw me to a completely different career path... and there you go.

But then, as paths of our lives seem to do, I was drawn back to the thing that I actually went to school for. I am learned in this far more than I am "experienced" at technical theatre... though it is a very strong asset to have. In all my planning, all my scheming to get me to Chicago and struggle as a starving artist/tech and "live the theatre dream", I was going by my strength as a man. Thankfully, I awoke to a phrase that drew me back to what I believe I am supposed to be doing:

"The plans of Man shall fail."

Though I find myself in a place where I am completely unsure of what I am supposed to do, or where I'm supposed to go... I trust. I have faith that I will be taken to the place that God wants me. My plans will fail. And He has plans for me. Always has.

You too. He's got something for you, whether you see it or not. Whether you believe it or not. You are important. You have a purpose.