Opportunities...

I've been thinking lately about opportunities. We each face choices or different opportunities each day, but it's up to us to seize them and make life meaningful. Something I've learned that will never disappoint: always choose family before anything else, and then also in a broader sense, always choose the opportunity that involves people and relationships. ...but those general rules work quite nicely when you don't know how to spend your day, or your year.
I don't know if that made any sense, i'm trying to be able to write on here just my general thoughts but it's hard for me to not have them fully explained and just let the words sit imperfectly!
One thing that I reeeally think about when I look back on the opportunities I've been presented with is God. It is so cool to look back on the past few years and recount all the amazing opportunities that God has placed in my life without me recognizing it!!! I swear, everytime, I don't recognize how amazing the opportunity was until it's over! When you trust your life to God, you'll be surprised the kinds of things you suddenly say "Yes" to. You just have to take a leap of faith and trust when you say, join a club, take a job, take a trip, live with new people and experience it to the fullest and then you will come out on the other side completely GROWN! God grows you in the craziest ways!
I know for a fact that I am about to be grown this semester when I take steps toward overcoming my anxiety problem and it's going to be rough and tough and scary! But all I can do is look back at my past and see that God really has never failed me or let me fall beyond His grasp. It is funny how sometimes we actually NEED to have really low lows to draw CLOSE to God.
Whatever path you are on, just don't settle. Keep seeking to grow! In whatever way that may be. Keep recognizing that EVERY opportunity that you are presented with is no accident and if you don't just brush it off as "oh another thing to do..." but instead actually give something a real effort CHANCE, you'll be amazzzzed at what can come of it.
<3 Katie