Living in the middle of nowhere in Wayne County, PA, has created a sense of isolationism reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's policy, though no war is imminent in my quaint village. Rather, I feel like I'm isolating myself from the reality that the majority of the people I graduated with last year either have started their careers or are furthering their education. All the while, I'm nestled in a small town continuing a seasonal position I have held the past couple of summers that has absolutely nothing to do with what I went to school for.
Living hours away from most of my friends and mainly interacting with my parents, coworkers, and customers, I feel as if I'm living in obscurity. In order to escape this feeling, I have been reading a lot because it allows for an escape from my current reality. What helped to lift my spirits a bit was my daily devotional from PrayFit on Tuesday. It discussed how an obscure donkey was chosen for the purpose of carrying Jesus on Palm Sunday into Jerusalem. It made me realize that even if I, along with others, feel like I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere at a dead end job that will be gone come October, that God has a plan for my life and this is part of it.
Last night I came across the following verse: Proverbs 16:3 ~ "Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established." It was a good reminder that He is in charge and I am to live for God because my life is a blessing from Him. There are situations that occur with my work that I would never encounter elsewhere, and that is all apart of His great plan for my life. For example, I guided a trip on Sunday for a bunch of women straight from Russia. Another situation is the possible job I'll have tomorrow, weather permitting. I'm supposed to be a guide in a raft for some friends of my boss so that they feel safe and don't have to over exert themselves. "Ironically" the man has a heart condition and I just so happen to have a Master's degree that focuses on cardiac rehabilitation. As far away as my current job is from anything in exercise physiology, I sense that God has me just where He wants me at the moment.
