Back to School...

I'm going into my fifth year of University starting next week. See I went into Engineering straight out of high school. Even though I had spent the whole year wondering if I actually wanted to be an engineer. Also despite the fact that I was in band, choir, drama, jazz choir and was Tzeitel in my school's rendition of Fiddler on the Roof. So fast forward 2 years and I'm doing my first co-op term. This time also coincided with the restarting of my faith journey and the joining of the Evangelical church. So for about 3 weeks in a row the preaching was all about finding your passion because that is what is given to you from God and you're supposed to use it for God. Except I had no idea what my passion was. I had a passion for music but was knee deep in an Engineering degree. Then I went to the young adults conference (where I also met J for the first time - talk about a life changing weekend!!) and had the whole weekend of preaching to find your passion and use it for the glory of God. So I had the Pastors pray for me to help me find my passion, and I got an image of teaching in my mind.

Now, my Mom is a teacher and she has spent my whole life not overly enjoying her career, and subtly/not-so-subtly trying to steer me away from teaching. But I started researching, and before I knew it I was switching into the Faculty of Education. I love it.

Although now, I'm not so sure that I'm going to actually use my degree a whole lot. See, even before I switched faculties I knew that if I could find a man who could support a family on his salary alone that I wanted to be a stay at home Mom (SAHM). Now when I made the switch I didn't even have a boyfriend. Now J and I have had the SAHM talk and it seems like it could be a reality. But what to do with this degree that I'm going to put 6 years into when it's all said and done? Now of course I will probably work before I have kids and later when they're older, but building my career will definitely not be at the forefront of goals for my life.

I honestly don't think that any education is wasted education. I'm sure there will be people who disagree with my choice (like my parents), but I think that above all my vocation is to be married and have children. Those are the people that I am to serve in order to bring myself closer to God. Priests serve their congregations, religious serve by praying and working in the community, single people serve by their occupations and work in the community, and married people serve their families.