Today is a reminder of how blessed Nathan and I are. Nathan is at school today taking his finals. After today he will have 5 semesters to go until he is a graduate! These last several semesters have gone by so fast. Nathan (we) came to a huge fork in the road and didn’t know how things would pan out at either choice. We decided to take a leap and have Nathan go to school full time! It was a little scary to allow such a big change but we didn’t just accept it we embraced it and I think that’s what made it so effortless. We completely let go and just had faith that GOD would take care of us and he did more than that, he blessed us with a life of ease, a life that really is stress free, a life where we never worry about money and best of all a life where we spend more time with the kids then we do at work/school! Being criticized along the way has done nothing but help us. How? When you’re in constant scrutiny you sometimes forget what YOUR goals in life are and you start trying to make others happy and doing what you feel will get you the most acceptances. But when you completely let go and just start living for yourself, your goals resurface and with a new found passion. Nathan used to go on and on about all his goals and tell whoever would listen about anything new he was doing in life. I never understood it but when I asked I learned he was doing it in hopes of some sort of acknowledgment, a “good job”, “I’m proud of you”. When he realized that no matter how hard he tried he wasn’t going to get what HE needed he stopped caring (a little too much at times) and started to live for him. This is what led him to quitting work, a job that could have turned into a career and went back to school for something that not only could be a career but that he wanted as a career. I couldn’t be more proud of him. In this whole process we have kind of influenced each other. My who cares what people think and crass personality rubbed off on him while his sensitive personality rubbed off on me. It has been a blessing in disguise but we have recently realized how complete it has made us as individuals. Everything we have gone through has been proved to be a learning experience for us and in the end (even though we are still learning) we were blessed for our positive changes and rewarded for our hard work. There will always be someone out there that is against us but we have learned that’s ok. Let go and let GOD. We are fortunate to have learned such an imperative lesson
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