treasure

What if God shows you His plan for you and that means you have to give up something you treasure?

Now that things are less hectic, my female owner has rekindled her seeking God for directions post-DCP. She’s still in the midst of working things through. Anyway, she entertained the possibility of having to go back to Singapore after graduation… and that filled her with reluctance, sadness and apprehension! You know, the heaviness of the heart kind of feeling.

She knows that if God calls, she will go, no matter how hard it is for her to give up her treasured possessions. She just wants to be sure that she has heard correctly and is going the right way.

Someone just asked her today if she has any plans for her life. My female owner once did (and I think I wrote about it before). Something along the typical Singaporean graduate lifeplan: go to uni, find a partner, graduate, work a few years, get married, have children, raise them on dual-income, grow old, have grand-children, retire, die happy.

Specifically, she wanted to get married by 25 (some of her friends would remember this), have 1-2 kids by 30 years old and get post-graduate qualifications. She also saw herself as working part-time while raising her kids. Well, her lifeplan took a drastic turn when firstly, she broke up with her partner of 6.5 years AFTER she was 25 and secondly, she got accepted into post-graduate training (by God’s divine intervention. It was such a convoluted process, that really, only God could have straightened out the obstacles).

Now, 2 years later, she is living a dream she has harboured since she started working. What’s beyond this dream? She has no inkling, no plans, and that is scary, for someone who’s old enough to be a mum.