Over the weekend, my cousin and close friend Katie got engaged! I am so excited for her and Jared! Thinking about Katie's engagement made me reflect on a big promise God has made to us... One of my very favorite verses in the Bible is Jeremiah 29:11. It reads: "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." (New International Version) I often worry about things...one of those being my future. I will graduate in December. To be exact, I graduate 297 days from now. I have no idea what I will do. I am just a 20 year old filled with dreams. I also have a habit of pretending I'm OK with not knowing what I'm going to do. I am getting good at offering a variety of answers to the dreaded question: "What are you going to do when you grow up?" *Note...I do not consider myself, at 20, to be a grown up yet. If you still sit at the kids' table at family gatherings and get Christmas presents from all the Greats, you aren't a grown up, in my opinion. I have no problem with this. Instead of fretting about the answer to this question (grad school? big girl job? chase crazy dreams? run to daddy crying?), I have recently begun to cling to Jeremiah 29:11. The verse doesn't give me the option to do nothing and just wait for God to dump something in my lap, but it encourages me knowing that God, who designs the coolest things, has big plans for me. He knows what my future holds. I have hope for my future. I know it will be bright. I know God is going to do something awesome, because He always does. I know as long as I keep growing in God and doing the things I am passionate about, I will be OK. I don't worry about knowing what tomorrow holds, I know the One that holds tomorrow. -Shae Music: Brandon Heath is one of my favorite artists at the moment. My top two most played songs this week have been Wait & See and London. Lady Antebellum's new CD, Need You Now, recently came out. I recommend I Was Here.  
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