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Today Was the Best Day Ever!

I feel like I've been saying this phrase a lot lately....or at least thinking it to myself.  Just about daily, as a matter of fact!  I guess this is great....even with the overload of homework I've already got, job rejections, and a lot of uncertainty about what my future holds, I still love my life a little more each day.  I can't help but think about how good the Lord has been to me, even more than I feel like I deserve!

Today I was sitting in the temple and just thinking...thinking about life, thinking about what's going on in mine right now, thinking about how happy I am.  I was so happy in the mission; I've heard it called the happiest time of life (up til marriage).  Yes, I was incredibly happy....in a whole new way, a kind of happiness I had never before nor ever since experienced.  And yet, the way life is going right now, I am also incredibly happy.  I am so blessed to be studying at a fantastic university, and to have people willing to help me through my tough classes.  I am blessed to have a wonderful family and amazing friends.  I've got a job and work with great people.  I have a fun ward.  The list keeps going on and on....

I was talking recently with someone about the uncertainties of the future, and how often times we need to make "blind" decisions.  He was telling me how he came to BYU without any kind of certainty about where he'd live, what he'd study, where he'd work, etc.  Basically, he came blindly, only trusting in the Lord to help him out.  And I got thinking about lots of things....I only have a real vision of my life through June of this year.  Beyond that, I don't know what life holds for me, but I am making some decisions now that could affect the rest of my life.  And I will need to make some decisions in the upcoming months, throwing myself 100% out there, taking risks and putting it all on the line, just for things i believe in and want to happen, without the certainty that they actually WILL happen.

I'm not sure if I am making a lot of sense....but in short, I love life, every day is better than the day before, and I've learned to trust in the Lord to guide me in my decision-making, even if I can't see the outcomes yet!  And writing this has actually given me a renewed motivation (well, writing this after going to the Temple and getting  a strong feeling there with regards to this same sort of topic) to run after my dreams so that I can see them become reality, and my life.  So that's what I am doing!  Call me crazy, as I'm sure many will, but I don't care.  Cuz no matter what, I know what my dreams are, and it's my life I am living. :)

Bedtime now, so I can get sleep to be able to run so much after these piling-up dreams!!!!! :)
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