God’s timing is a little funny :’)

I am not one to normally talk about things I am doing in life because it has always been hard to be proud of myself without feeling prideful, SO, let everything I am about to say instead be a reflection and testament of GOD and His good, faithful, and PERFECT timing and plan. 

In 2024 I graduated high school with 2 Associate Degrees and started my B.S. in Biological Psychology as a Junior at UC Davis. Over the first year, I was super confused with what my college career would look like and had many, many advising meetings about wanting to change my major, add majors and minors, and even transfer out of UC Davis. 

At the end of the year, I had been serving with Bayside Davis church as an intern while also working on @ChristThroughChristi (my podcast!). I grew up serving and being in church but did not know that a lifetime of service was possible. I met with my Pastor, many mentors, and a super close friend of mine and had told them that maybe I wanted to serve more than just during college, maybe a lifetime of service is what I wanted, whatever that meant.

Over that (last) Summer, I decided to switch from my degree to a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Communications instead, potentially pursuing ministry. It did not necessarily feel like something God “called” me to do, but when I chose to switch, I felt a tangible warmth and He just seemed as if He was smiling down on me, saying I didn’t have to do this, but that He was going to bless it tenthfold. Still, at the beginning of this school year, I did not know that at the end of it, I would be graduating. As months went on, I fell deeper in love with walking through life with others in hard seasons, learning more about God and the Biblical truths, and just serving wherever He needed me to. 

Soooo, I have not only finished my B.A. in two years and will be graduating TOMORROW, but these last 4 weeks I have also started my Master’s program! I have enrolled in Liberty University’s Online Seminary where I am pursuing my Master’s of Divinity in Church Ministries and Christian Leadership. I do not know the specific path that the Lord has in store for me, I just know that He has helped me dream bigger than ever before, given me confidence to tap into all of the creative and academic gifts He has given to me, has shown me it is okay to not be good at everything because He fills in the gaps, and reminds me that before I am His servant, I am His DAUGHTER, and I am so deeply loved by Him.

Jesus Christ has saved my life from my addictions of self harm, desires to commit suicide, desperate searching of what love looked like, and from succumbing to the idea that my dreams are “too big” and “unrealistic.”

I am the first in my family to graduate and to pursue a Master’s degree, and this shows that I serve a God who breaks generational curses.

I am, for the first time, okay with not knowing what my life will look like 10 years from now, and this shows that I serve a God who I can trust has greater plans than I.

I am, firstly, a daughter to a Father who loves, cares, and delights in me, and this shows that I serve a God who is real, knowable, and excited to have a relationship with EACH of His children (YOU INCLUDED).

I came in to Davis two years ago with all of my plans

Then I fell in love with Jesus and gave them all to Him

And of course, He turned them inside out and into something I could have never dreamt up

But of course, it was far better this way.

Thank you Jesus, for your way is greater.

Thank you Jesus, for everything else you have in store.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:11-13