Hindsight is 20/20..

As much as I sometimes hate to admit, I do believe that hindsight is 20/20. And I've learned a great deal of that over the past six months or so. I can't exactly tell you why I didn't move to Birmingham six months ago, why the job that I originally took didn't work out, or for that matter why I graduated with an Insurance degree and not an Accounting degree. There are so many unknown factors in life, and I've come to accept that some of them we may never know. But I do know this, that there is a reason for it all. I know that there is One who knows it all, even the most finite details that I sometimes probably tend to look over.

The past six months of my life I have learned a lot, and although my circumstances were almost nothing in comparison to other's, it was a learning experience to say the least and for that I am thankful. Now would I have rather had the most optimal experience? Most definitely, and do I wish that things had worked out perfectly the first time? Why of course!

But to say that I learned a lot is an understatement. My relationship with the Lord has grown immensely, and only over the past three weeks have I seen some of the reasoning in which things didn't work out the first time. My faith has grown tremendously in leaps and bounds. I'm thankful for the time that I have had up until now, and I will be forever grateful for everything that I have now and also to come in the future. I am learning each day that some things in life are just worth the wait. I have felt more blessed over the past month than I can ever remember. Even the mornings that I was commuting to Birmingham for sales meetings, trainings, etc., and had to be up at 4:00 a.m., I was just extremely grateful to have a job. Who enjoys getting up at 4:00 a.m.? Well, I wouldn't say it was exactly fun but I woke up each of those morning feeling completely thankful to just have a job...even if it did require getting up at 4:00 a.m. You wouldn't believe the amount of unemployed people I run across daily, and my heart really goes out to you. So the next time you feel like complaining about your job, you should stop and be thankful that you have a job to go to. There were many days that I would get on Facebook to see that someone had updated their status about how horrible there job was, my only thought was "if they only knew what I would do to have their job." I definitely have a new perspective on life, and one that I will be infinitely grateful for years to come.

Things are going so well here, and I hope that they continue to do so.

As many of you know, I am an insurance broker. With the new health care system, insurance companies will be affected. How will it affect us? Only time will really tell. There is nothing that we can worry about today that will make things better tomorrow. I hope and pray that my job will not be directly affected by these new laws, but I'm afraid it will tremendously whether good or bad. I'm definitely not promised a job in twenty years. And the funny thing? Is that I've learned to be okay with that. Only God knows the plans that He has for my life, and that should be enough comfort for all of us.

I read so many blogs each day, and I always find it so comforting to read other's blogs who are in the same stage of life that I am currently in/or have been in before. So many just now entering into the workforce or graduating college, and I love reading there daily updates on their unknown future. Because my life has been unknown since the day I graduated from Mississippi State University. It can be the scariest feeling in the world sometimes, and it's nice to know that you're not the only person going through the same thing! I will leave you with this,

"For I know the plans I have for you," declaires the lord; "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart. I will be found by you," declares the Lord," and will bring you back from captivity." Jer. 29:11-14