Overwhelmed

This semester is crazy.  My classes are so much more work than I am used to, and I feel like I am suffocating with everything I have to do.  I love it though, and I am grateful that I can be in school, learning about things that I am really interested.  The best word to describe how I'm feeling is overwhelmed.

Today I am feeling especially overwhelmed, but this time it isn't with homework or stress.  I am completely overwhelmed with happiness.  I don't know whether I am going to scream, laugh, or cry!  I talked to my friend Carter, who is already in Uganda doing the SEED internship.  He shared his blog with me, and I could not stop reading it.  Reading about all of the experiences he is having over there makes me so excited for when I get to be over there.  I cannot wait to get over there and experience Uganda.

But until then...I'll be in Logan, overwhelmed with accounting, finance, econ, and tax.  It's all worth it though.

Opportunity of a Lifetime

There's a moment where you stop, and you take a look back on your life.  You think about the places you've been, the people you've known, the things you've learned, and you see how everything you have experienced has gotten you to this very moment.  The pieces of your life have been slowly coming together, and now, all of a sudden, the picture is becoming clear.

I have been given the most amazing opportunity in the world.  At the end of the semester, I am going to Uganda for a three month internship, with the S.E.E.D. program.  I look back and reflect on the many different things that have shaped me into the person I am.  Within the past few years, I have come to love traveling, business, and teaching.  This program encompasses all of this.  I'm amazed how I have been led to this crazy opportunity, and I am so excited to go!

The Symbolic Seed

There are thousands and thousands of seeds.  We find them everywhere.  There are sunflower seeds at baseball games, black watermelon seeds we spit out at summer barbecues, seeds attached to the end of the dandelions we wish on, and seeds of many types littering the ground in the fall.  So what is a seed?  What do seeds do?  A seed, although often small and seemingly insignificant, is something if planted and nurtured, can grow into something truly amazing.  

Seeds are everywhere, both figuratively and literally.  I want to look for the seeds in life, the ones that were planted long ago in order to get me where I am today, as well as the ones that are being continually planted, constantly causing great things to bloom and grow around me.  

New seeds are planted every day.  So many things in life are constantly changing, new opportunities are always arising, and all because at one point, a seed of something was planted.  I want to recognize all of the little seeds in my life that have (or will have) the big impact on my life.  

Now that's a pretty big tree to grow from one tiny seed!