Patience, a plan and a dream...

Have you ever wondered what the plan for your life will be...? As another year is about to come to a close... I started to reflect on the events of this year and how I ended up in Korea... I never thought that in a million years I would be sitting overseas for a year (especially some Asian country)... Now that I've been here for a little over three months the reality of this journey is starting to sink in... Usually what I like to do is to reflect on the year that has passed to see if the current year is ending better than it started... This has been a bit of a tossup for me considering that I have lost more than I gained or maybe that is the perception that I am seeing or want to see... I'm making the same mistake we all make in life when we only see the here and now and not the what has yet to happen. I hate to say that I am impatient. When we are lacking in an area of our lives we tend to try to better ourselves in that particular area. That means when you need to have patience then we must be tested so we can gain that certain characteristic. I don’t want to be tested in that area because I have been through enough waiting around and learning patience, at least so I think… Life is like what Forrest Gump said, “A box of chocolates. You never know what you will get.” Life is full of surprises. There is this old saying, “that if you dream big, God always has a bigger dream than you can ever think or imagine.” So as I close out 2007, I will continue to plan and I will continue dream big because there is a bigger dream for me out there. I guess what I am trying to say is planning is always good but I guess dreaming is better. The plan no matter how much effort you may put into it will constantly change because of life’s circumstances. The dream is the foundation to the plan and without the dream you will never get the plan off the ground. As we go through the journey of life your patience will be tested and as you go you will grow. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream for a nation and even though we have a long way to go, as a country the United States has come along way.