shall we begin

To blog or not to blog... that was the question. Then I came up with what I think is a great title, Unexpected Expectations, I was so happy about this epiphany that I HAD to create a link from myself to the world wide web... again. I blogged the first time while I taught English in South America, that title I'm not so proud of, Chile What I am doing here. Yikes. Then, I started to miss blogging so I started another titled, Now What. Seriously, I couldn't have been less enthused. Well, here I stand again at the threshold of the blogging world I cling to so dearly and want so passionately to be part of.
 
Back to the title, Unexpected Expectations. The first word, Unexpected, gosh we are so full of expectations for our lives, each other, relationships, jobs... the list could go on and on. I expect for the sun to come up every day, I expect for my parents to answer the phone every time I call, I expect the perfect thing will be on TV every time I turn it on. What about the unexpected, doesn't that throw a knot in our jump ropes? I didn't expect for my alarm clock to not go off this morning and leave me in a running late, streaked make-up, forgot to eat breakfast kind of day... that's like a double knot in the jump rope.
Here is the question, what can we expect from the unexpected? In my freshman year of college the whole summer and week before sorority recruitment I had dreamed of being a Kappa Delta. It's all I wanted, and it fit perfectly into my expected college experience. But, on bid day I wasn't handed a Kappa Delta t-shirt but a Tri-Delta Tee. I made the best friends of my life through Tri-Delta and made memories that could fill half a lifetime. Unexpected yet exceptionally wonderful. Something so trivial, like a sorority, has huge impacts on our lives. In the beginning I expected to be miserable, then unexpectedly I was so happy it's a wonder I didn't just float away with cloud nine.

Being the diligent English student that I am I had to set-up a theme and the winner is... expectations. It's something I am struggling with right now, these ideas WE have of what our lives are supposed to look like. What happens when something so unexpected happens, that not even in our wildest expectations could we have ever planned for this and the only direction to follow is God's...

geez, I thought I'd finally jumped over the learning curve