October is upon us and with it comes dreams of cool, breezy autumn days....
For those of us living in south Texas that kind of weather remains a dream for at least two more months.

My days have been fairly busy, but not the busy I'm used to. For the past four years I've either been dancing all day with performances sprinkled throughout or teaching all day on another continent. No, this busy looks very different compared to past years. During the week I am working two jobs and learning to be okay with that for now. It's a fancy icebreaker when meeting new people in this college town, though.

Person: "So what year are you?"
Me: "Oh, I'm not in college."
Person: "Cool, when did you graduate?"
Me: "Never. Yeah, I'm not in college nor have I ever been, so...yeah. I teach dance."
Person: ****confused staring & awkward nodding & nervous laughter ensue***

Honestly, these past few weeks I've been fighting with the idea that what I'm doing now and where I am is like taking 392 huge steps backward from where I was last year and even the year before that. I'm not across the ocean with the precious people who changed my life or dancing every day with some of my very best friends. I am just working and planting my mustard seed of faith for my future dreams.
In my bathroom there is a window that overlooks the railroad and a bunch of trees and just so happens to be the side where the sun sets. Every evening I catch a glimpse of the masterpiece painting in the sky and usually am struck with longing to be in a different place, doing something else, but tonight wasn't like the others. As I snapped this picture, my heart was uplifted with these words,
"Greater things are on the horizon."
These words were immensely encouraging, knowing the greater things that HE has planned for me. I am in no way saying that where I am now and my jobs are not a great & wonderful part of His story, but tonight the Lord knew what I needed to hear.

 "The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when you return from your daily victory and defeat."
                                                                - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

                                                       Do small things with great love.