"Who/ What/ Where will I be in ten years?"
In ten years I hope to be doing what
I am already doing now: teaching and living in other countries. I will be 35 years old by then. So hopefully my teaching skills will be much
better than they are now, and I will have a lot of experience adapting to new
cultures. The country I want to visit
most is Australia, but I think if I am teaching in ten years I would love to
live in Africa. There are so many needs
there and people who need the love of God.
Who am I? Well, these days I still lack the ability to
lose control. I always need control. I
think it will be constant struggle for the rest of my life. But in ten years, when I’m 35, well…I hope to
be somewhat closer to letting God have more control and not me. I hope to be someone who is teachable and
never feeling like I have everything figured out. I tend to think like that these days. In ten years, I will be a woman who teaches,
but learns more.
I will be a mother by then and, of
course, a wife. I will have two, maybe
three children of my own by then with one or two adopted on the way. There are too many children in this world without
parents, so I want to give a home to some.
In ten years, my kids will be old enough to know Jesus and they will be
excited about the gospel like my husband and I are. They will also have an understanding of other
cultures and people, having lived in multiple countries already. In ten years, St. Louis will still be
considered my home, my place of refuge, but it won’t be where I live.
In ten years, well, I have no idea
where I will be then. But I know who I am
now and who I serve. In ten years, as
long as I am still doing that, then there is nothing else I need to know.
