Finished and just beginning

Hi friends,

So I am officially completed with my bachelor's degree. I now have a Bachelor of Science in Human Development from Warner Pacific College in Portland through the degree completion program. I have been in class nearly every Tuesday night for the past 19 months. This is why I had my last class on a Tuesday in January.

Since I left class last night I have realized I don’t know how to express what I feel. I have been excited a lot and also have been asked "what's next?" a lot. For now, it’s a two week trip to Malaysia in a week. And the largest party I have ever thrown in March. But then what?

I have a lot of debt. In that a lot more than I planned on having. And so I will keep working for a couple years. Then Vietnam? Cuba? Antarctica? China? Malaysia? Timbuktu? Kansas?

I don’t know. I recently was chatting with a new friend that likes to ask deep questions. I talked a lot about God's plan… for my future, my well being, my joy. I said I wanted to be in the center of God's will for where to go. And who to live with and who to give my money. But I don’t even know what that means.

Which leads me here writing, listening to the moth podcast, sitting with gym shorts on my head because my beanie is downstairs and the house is cold. Wondering how I got here. And realizing that no matter my plan and failures… God is with me and keeps me in His plan whether I like it or not. Like Jonah.

Amen? Thoughts?

Oh and this is how I celebrate... a bucket of Voodoo donuts.