When I thought about trying to consider using my master’s degree for work, all these reasons why I shouldn’t do it popped into my mind. Then, I turned around and thought about how my mom taught me to have a self-defeating attitude. It occurred to me that if I always thought about how I could fail, then I would never be able to succeed at anything.
Then I remembered how God doesn’t care about the end result. He just cares about the living of life. If I embrace my life and try to live it fully, then come what may, at least I tried and I really lived instead of being in a glass box shut away from the world like a cherished, but dead doll.
I also remembered that even my husband took a chance to pursue his dreams at one point and he doesn’t have regrets about it. That chance led him to me and to where he is today. I’m proud that he took that chance and tried. I guess that’s why he is supporting me now because he knows that even if I don’t succeed that taking that chance could lead to some amazing possibilities and opportunities that I never even imagined. I just need to be willing to have faith.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
