A few months ago I was broken and it knocked me, but then I was offered the amazing opportunity to go to Australia. Whilst in Australia I thought long and hard about what it was I wanted to do with my life and having always been interested in beauty and make-up I decided to go to Beauty School. I have been there for 4 months now and qualify in January, it's good; but it still wasn't what I wanted. I was job hunting at the same time and got offered an amazing job with the make up company Clinique, which fitted in perfectly with my course. However I had to turn down this job for a few reasons and once again I felt like I was back to square one on the job hunting front. There were a few other things going on in life that caused me to be quite gloomy, and I had stopped singing. Singing is my release, its my way of getting through an emotion, its something I feel confident in and makes me feel happy... I missed it and was getting tense and sad that I had lost some of my singing abilities... But then I found a new singing teacher. I am now singing again and performing in Aladdin at Christmas and my heart started saying "yep I'm feeling a little more fulfilled now" Then, one night I applied for a job as a young persons worker working with children who have been abused or neglected, and children who have physical or learning disabilities. I applied in haste not really thinking I would get it, as usually jobs like this like people to have a degree in child education or social work. HOWEVER to cut a long story short, I got an interview and now have a job!
I am now doing 3 things I LOVE. I am SINGING. I am WORKING. I am making people BEAUTIFUL.
I don't want this blog to be boastful. I want it to show how God takes a situation and turns it around. He has plans. Amazing plans; plans that are bigger and better than any we could ever dream of for ourselves. It has taken TIME. And it has taken PATIENCE. And it has taken PESERVERANCE. And it has taken a lot of PRAYER and tears. And I am not where I want to be, but Thank God I am not where I used to be. You can't live in brokenness. You can't go through life and say "This has happened to me and this is always the way I am going to feel and be because life is just tough" God wants to take that brokenness and turn it into beauty.
I'm sorry this has been a very self orientated blog post. But I want it to bring hope to those in a dark place that that darkness will eventually turn into light. Sometimes pain is what wakes us up and makes us listen to God. And you will get to where you are meant to be all in the right time and not any moment sooner.
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S Lewis
