Destiny... More than a wife.

Before beginning my college journey, about a month ago, I stumbled across an article written by a woman entitled "67 things I wish I had known at 18"... I, being the curious, random person that I am just had to read this article, especially since I am 18 (how perfect, right? maybe this article will help me figure everything out! Ha!)

Let me just briefly say, the quick tips on those 67 lines were beyond helpful and most certainly true and I am thankful that I just happened to find it, right in the middle of my 18th year. However, tonight, as I just read back thru the 67 things, I had to stop at number 31: "you are destined to be more than someone's wife. act like it." Wow. Whether we like to admit or not, as teenage girls walking a college campus, the one thing constantly running thru our minds is that one cute guy in our Economics class or the one reallyyyyy cute guy that we just caught looking at us for more than five seconds from across the cafeteria... but I worry sometimes that we, as girls, (myself included) get all too carried away stressing over our relationship with a significant other. I mean, after all we are destined to be something on our own, too, right? I hope to one day land a career in the field of Marketing... that is what I am destined to be, right? I want to have a family of my own... I am destined to be a mom, right? I want to travel the world.. that, too, is part of my destiny, right?

I am so thankful that both of my parents have encouraged and pushed me to "make-do" and do certain things on my own as well as make sure that I get a career of my own so that I will one day be able to provide for myself and my family on my own without a "husband." What if I don't get married? What if the guy that God chooses for me gets deathly ill and can no longer provide for the needs of our family? What if one day the man whom I love with everything in me decides to up and walk away, for whatever reason? This day and time, if there is one thing for certain: it is the uncertain. No one ever knows what tomorrow may bring our way.

Though it probably is in our destiny to one day make someone a happy man and become his wife.. I truly hope that we college girls can look over that one tiny glimpse into the future and focus on all of the other things that life brings our way, too.

One of my favorite authors wrote this, "There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do, a future that is impossible to ignore."

Though we may not always be able to ignore that really handsome football player in the library or the cute frat boy in the business hall, we must wait on our own destiny to arrive and be as it may--a wife, a school teacher, sunday school teacher, mom or all of the above... It will blow and then, we will know.. destiny...


Bless you!
Elizabeth