I am sitting here alone in an empty apartment...when just yesterday it was filled with family and friends...Life is changing so fast, faster than I can understand. I am listening Martina McBride's song "Trying to find a reason," It explains my feelings of leaving Northwest. "maybe it is time to walk away if I am trying to find a reason to stay...all I know is it can't go on forever..." There is so much waiting for me in Chicago and I am ready for the adventure...the adventure that is at my feet. I am ready to dive in, both feet first! :)
As I look back a couple of months ago in August 2007 when I started a job to 'just pay the bills' I never knew that it could change my heart and life forever. I was hired as an after school teacher at St.Gregory's school. From the first day of meeting my co-workers, parents and students I loved it! I finally saw what I enjoyed and was good at. To my surprise I would stumble upon an opportunity of a lifetime to be able to receive my Master's in Education from Loyola University. The LU-Choice program is setup to help financially and at the same time be in the classroom teaching. The best part is living with other participants while growing together in our struggles as teachers, doing bible studies, making meals together, and experiencing Chicago!
God has given my heart peace about moving on, pressing forward to this new time in my life and I will be helping out in an area where there is a need for it, the inner city schools of Chicago. Service teaching is going to be challenging in ways that I don't even know right now.
It hasn't seemed like 4 years ago I was moving up here to NW. Time just passes us by without us even noticing. I have enjoyed my time here and the past week of saying good-bye has been bittersweet. I am ready to start the new chapter of my life in Chicago. This chapter is one of excitement in the unknown, I don't know who I will meet along the way or who will touch my life. I am trusting God to guide my path and meet me there.
Fondly,
Gina
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