Learn to Dance with the Rain
”Be like a cameo that makes an adjustment by camouflaging to his environment.”
Being a student is gone. I’m about to take another stage of my life where I should be more productive and be independent from my parents. It was just ironic that when I was still a student, I’ve been very eager to finish my schooling and just work instead. But now that I graduated, I wanted to go back and study again (deep sigh).
Being stocked here for a month now after the exam, I am thinking all over and over again. What career is waiting for me outside? What do I want to do? What should I do now? These questions are kept on popping in my mind. I am praying for answers… for God to reveal what are His plans for me. Right now, I am just holding on to His promise, Jeremiah 29:11 (For I know the plans I have in you, says the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.)
Looking back on how I got through this, it is all because of God’s miracle and blessings. Two years ago, I almost had to stop my nursing course. I was already in my 2nd year and it was a dilemma for me. I just found myself one night crying out to God, asking questions and begging for help. I know it was not just me who were suffering from this but also my parents. Before another semester is about to start, I am unsure if I could still enroll… but God didn’t allow that to happen. I went to Baguio, and there I found my new nursing school through the help of a person whom God used to show His abundant love for me. It was so sudden but I am grateful.
Being in a new environment is a big adjustment. Though it’s hard, I must endure it for my family and for my future. My college life was full of challenges that tested my ability and my faith. There were still times that I cry at night because of losing hope… but still, God is there to give me hope. It is amazing that despite of this, God never fails to make me laugh most of the time. Blessings are truly a thousand times more than our sufferings.
Life is like a dance with different beats. Sometimes it is slow that we are able to enjoy the music. There were times that it goes fast and you should work hard to harmonize with it. It is a dance where you will get tired and want to give up because the steps are difficult. You will get bruised and stumble down because of your many attempts to do the step. But as they said, “behind every great performance are lots of sweats and sacrifices… time, money, effort.”
As I make my dance with life, I hope and pray that I can come up with a good performance as a living testimony to others. A dance which I can say a masterpiece of my great dance instructor, God.