Longing to Travel!

First off happy first birthday Gwyneth Rose (check out http://cfhusband.blogspot.com/ for more info). If you haven’t heard of my friends Tricia and Nathan’s journey the past year, please visit their blog to see what they have gone through and what the Lord has done for them!

So Christmas and New years was a good time for me. I went to PA for two days (b/c I had to be back to work on the 26) and it was nice to see family and have fun. It really was a good time this year. Different, but good! For new years I wanted to have a big fancy party w/ lots of friends, but a lot of people were out of town or made prior plans, so Dina and I headed to Roanoke went out to dinner, and stayed at a friend’s house (they were out of town) and we played Rock Band 2 and Wii all night till the ball dropped. It was fun and then the next day we went shopping. I am excited about 2009 and hope it is an amazing year with lots of new things and more firsts ;0)!

So lately I have been kinda down. I am so grateful for my job! I like it, and I love the kind people I work with. The money is not great at all and I feel like I can’t save or get ahead in my student loans, but I know God has me here for a reason, and I daily come to work thanking God for this position and praying that I can be ok with this for now and try not to complain. The thing that is getting me down is that I really want to travel. Lately it is consuming me. I will spend my days looking up cruises, looking up plane tickets, rental cars, and looking up different places I want to go to. I know it may sound silly but I want to travel so badly! The only thing holding me back is no vacation days yet, and no money. I could probably save a lot and travel if not for Sallie Mae (she and I are not friends right now!), but with that huge payment every month it makes it hard!

I have such big dreams, but feel like I can’t do them. I want to go so many places and have a big list of places I want to visit! I look back and in almost 25 years of life, and I have been a lot of places, but I dream of traveling more! I pray that God will provide for me this year so that I can travel! Alaska was so beautiful and I dream of going back there soon to see things I didn’t see this summer and to see the Northern Lights! I want to go to Hawaii, the Mediterranean, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, the Caribbean, I want to visit every state in the US, and go to Cabo San Lucas Mexico just to name a few! So, hopefully 2009 will allow me to meet some of these dreams! I also pray that I can continue to trust the Lord and trust that this is where He wants me right now and that when He wants me to move on He will let me know and that He will open doors for me.

Lynchburg is home, and I love it. Lord let me ok w/ where you have me, and continue to show me where you want me, and show me what my dream is! Please don’t let me get angry, bitter, and unhappy like I was a year ago! Thank you for everything!