One door closes and its like a thousand others open up...and I feel like Gandalf in the mines of Moria sitting trying to figure out which one is the right path to take. Just waiting for the moment when I will get a whiff of air and all of the sudden just know which one is the right one. But alas, I fear that will not happen! So, I will have to just take the plunge and hope for the best...thank God for unlimited grace and His guiding hand...even when I can't clearly see it. :)

So these options have been swimming around in the pools of my mind: go to Tanzania...stay in school next year, just get the degree finished and then take care of the costs...go to Tanzania for a shorter amount of time...go to school next year, but get a part time teaching gig and therefore take fewer hours...don't go to Tanzania...move back to Iowa, or somewhere totally new, and get a full time teaching gig so that the license doesn't lapse...or just drop it all, magically pay off all the loans from this year and go to Sudan/Uganda and help out there...or just go back to Senegal and teach there. And the options just keep scrolling around...and everyday a new one gets added to the pile. Gotta love it.

So...needless to say, I am my usual clueless self and desperately want to escape the world and FINALLY go to the Grand Canyon...one can only weigh the pros and cons so many times before they need a break....but since I can't get to the Grand Canyon just yet...instead, I will settle for Peoria, IL this weekend to hear Brennan Manning speak. Should be good...but no Grand Canyon escape...yet. :)