When life seems a little cracked

It's only Thursday and I feel like the days keep being longer and longer with more things pilling up. To say the least, this week has been so incredibly challenging. Actually, this entire month and a half has been probably the most difficult time of my life thus far. I didn't really think that it would be so difficult staying home from college with my family where everything seemed so comfortable. Comfort is by far what I got. It's been a challenge, a struggle, a low period. Days where I cannot wait until I am able to put on sweatpants and crawl up under my Frozen blanket and just fall asleep. Days when I just want to forget the world and days where I just want to buy a plane ticket and leave the country. 

But more than anything, this transition period has taught me more than I could have ever imagined.

It's all perspective. 

I can look at the fact that I have to sacrifice my weekends at camp for teaching Sunday school as an awful decision or I can be grateful for the 25 kids in my class each week that are able to hear the gospel and grow more in their faith. 

I can look at the fact I have to give up my Thursday morning bible study with women that I can learn from and look up to for the precious nine month old I get to nanny as a dissatisfaction or I can be thankful for the four weeks that I got to spend with these women. 

I can look at my entire front screen of my iPhone cracking while walking out of Pet Supplies Plus after a long night of Awana as an awful situation or I can see how God has been taking my love for material things and shaping it into a virtue of not being materialistic. 

No matter what is it (and oh yes there's more) I know that I have the choice to look at my situation as a way for God's glory to be revealed and to trust that He will use it for me good. 

"I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances." Philippians 4:11

In Christ,

Carrie