Happy 100!

I know.
Two blogs back to back.
I'm getting a little
writing happy.
But really.
I just have so much to say.
Not really.
Ha.

I was just thinking today
of how different things
are than I ever expected them to be.

Let's take a journey back
to 12-year-old Bekah's mind.
Ready?
I was going to graduate from
high school as Valedictorian.
And then I was going to go to
Yale or Harvard
on a full-ride scholarship.
After I graduated from college,
I was going to travel around the world
working with different
organizations to tell people about Christ
and help them in their current situations.
After a few years of doing this,
I was going to come back to the States,
and, somehow I was going to get married.
(I don't exactly know to whom,
since I would have been gone for so long.)
And then we would have 12 children
(some of our own, but
most of them would be adopted.)
And we would live happily ever after.

Now, let's jump ahead to
16-year-old Bekah's mind.
Here we go...
I would graduate from high school,
and go to Oklahoma Baptist University.
I was dating this boy at that time,
so we would date
throughout our stay at OBU.
And after I graduated with my degree
in missions,
we would get married
and go do mission work somewhere.
We were going to have
kids and raise them wherever
God was having us serve.

And this is 18-year-old Bekah:
Now that I've graduated high school,
and decided that OBU
wasn't where God wanted me,
I would take a year off school.
And then I would go to
Culinary School to get a degree.
Then, upon graduation,
I would get a job at a prestigious bakery
to get some really good experience.
After a while, I would
then open my own bakery.
(The ultimate plan was to
open a bakery next to my
dad's BBQ joint.
His dream has always been to
have his own BBQ restaurant,
and so I thought it would be fun
to work alongside my parents
and have my goodies and breads
be served in their restaurant.)
Anyway, that was the plan.


It's really amazing to see how plans change.
Over the years,
I've learned that
any plans I may try to make
have to be flexible.
It's so crazy to think that
all those plans I had in my head
back then
weren't actually what
the Lord had in store for me.
He had and has something
so much greater.
He's taken me on this adventure
where I've learned so much
and He's been changing my heart.

If I had stuck to one of my plans,
then
I never would have gone to American Samoa
I never would have moved to Raleigh
I never would have joined IDC.
None of those things were ever on my radar.

Praise the Lord that He has greater plans.
Praise Him that He is showing me how to be obedient to His plans.
Praise Him that He is showing me how to be patient and wait on Him in all things.
He is so good.

It's been a day of reflection.
Reflection of where I am now, where I've been brought from, and what could possibly be in the future.

But anyway.
This is post 100!
Happy day.

Annnnnd
this week I'll be roasting my first turkey.
We'll see how that goes.
I'm celebrating Thanksgiving
with my kids at Ravenscroft.
I'm pretty excited about it.
And so are the kids.

Oh, and we're just six days away
from Texas!
It's practically just around the corner!

Blessings.