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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." C. S. Lewis

Lately I have been thinking a lot about my dreams for the future and I thought I would share some of those here.

One day I would like to go to Africa and work with the Aids orphans. I would like to lay hands on those babies who have suffered so much and tell them of Jesus's love for them. I want to play soccer in the hot sun with the children listening to their laughter raise up. They have seen so much grief losing their parents but they are just children and they need laughter.

When I get my degree in education I feel called to be a teacher for children who are unable to attend school. I would like to work in hospitals with sick children while they are not in school. I like the idea of teaching one on one and of giving kids some sense of normalcy while they are ill.

I also sometimes feel called to doing foster care. I especially love working with infants. I would love to care for babies until they can be adopted. I know it would be hard letting them go, not knowing how they turn out but at the same time rewarding to care for them and give them a good start.

The last dream I have is the hardest. That is the dream for the man I would someday like to marry. Nothing in this life is guaranteed us and I know that God may chose to allow me to be single in order to fufil the purpose he has for me. I do however have a dream of that relationship. The man who will marry me would need to love Jesus first and me second. Everything else is secondary, although I have my list like every girl of things I am attracted to, someone who can sing to me at our wedding, someone who makes me laugh, someone who is patient and creative. The hardest part about this dream is sometimes i want to figure it all out and I try and jump the gun on friendships thinking wouldn't so and so be great....but I have confidence when it is for real God will hit me over the head and there will be no doubt. Often though as I have been surrounded by great men of God it is difficult to be patient. I think sometimes..if it is possible...what attracts me to them is more about the Jesus in them. I know that the man I marry will have that same Jesus attraction as well. And so today the prayer is for patience and that God's dreams for me his child and my dreams would meet in his perfect timing.

Psalm 16
10For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the place of the dead), neither will You suffer Your holy one [Holy One] to see corruption.(1)
11You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.(2)

posted by Kate @ 6/02/2004 09:30:00 AM