How is my Life Being Threaded Together?

           My life is being threaded together in a lot of different ways. I have been through a lot but it is because God has a Great Plan for me. I didn't noticed the threading together part until here recently. We are all on God's Mission here on the earth and we try to listen and do His Will but it can get blocked at times or it is not like we planned at all but we still do it. There are certain times in my life where God has threaded through things that I didn't even plan on in my life but I wouldn't have it any other way right now. Things ended up better and they continue to get that way too.
           You tend to see God threading you life together when you get out of college or in college but not before then. You have everything planned out for you before then like going to school and living with your family. You have your parents there to tell you how to live and when to do things but it is then after you graduate high school that you really see your life being shredded together by Christ. You have to get all the basic learning down before you can to the school of your choice to do what you want to do for the rest of your life or so you think. I know for me God had other plans for me.
           I started to see God threading my life together when I started picking out colleges in high school. I had always dreamed of going to this one main big college that all my other family members went to but in the end it wasn't the one for me. While looking at the college mom brought up the one that she and my dad went to for awhile so I signed up for it as a back up not really thinking about getting in there even though it was a small college and a better chance for me to get in. It also seemed easier for me because I'm not the very social type those big colleges call for. I can never see me at one of those even to this day.
          I got into the small college and had put down my major as elementary education because you know coming from a family of educators why not, right? Well, having that major worked okay for about 2 years and then I changed it because I started to get worried about the classes and tests I would have to take to get into the big program. I changed my major to Child Development and that major was fun and easy. Let me tell you something, though, it isn't easy in the bigger world. I would have rather and still thinking about being a teacher. I also had the chance to go on a lot of mission trips and I lived that sort of mission life while in college since it was a Christian college that I went to. I got to explore some of the world because of that.
           After I graduated college and was looking for a career, that is when I had no idea where God wanted me and why. I looked for jobs in MO and AR. When I say jobs I mean, daycare and preschool jobs since I did work in the college daycare for 4 years. I thought that was the place for me and that is why I also changed my major. Well, let me tell you it was for me for about 4 years and then I wanted change. I had fun in the childcare field but it just got repeatedly boring and too stressful for me. I had fun experiences at every place I worked especially at the children's shelter. It was there that I grew a lot as a person. Because of that growth, I think I wanted to go back into the public school area because those type of children are there too especially around where eI live in AR. The daycares and preschools I ended up working in AR at seem to up tight for me. I also went to Guatemala two times with the church when I first moved to AR but my mission life as subsided too for now.
           God put the public schools back on my heart in a strange way while I was working at my last daycare and preschool and there I quit that job and went to work for an after school program with the public schools around me. I will say that part of my dream in high school was to make my own after school program in an area where it was needed and here I got to work for one. It has been fun. I also still have 2 mission trips that I want to go on if the Lord is willing but I am okay if I don't get to go on those.
             I think once you see how your life is being and can be threading/ed out, it makes you stop and think about things. It makes you rely more on God at times. Makes you think about what things are more important then the others. I know my past situations has helped me turn to God more and ask questions that I never would have asked. Now here I am thinking about being a sub for the next school year and back in the school area which I loved and always will it seems like. I also know that I have given my life over to God and my dream about my a stay at home mom because now I know that is what I want to be in the long run or a teacher. The both have the same passions I do and I know what my true passions are now. Thanks to one of my jobs for making me doubt them for awhile. It was much needed.
            At that moment or in that time we can't see how God is threading our lives together. I had no idea I would be where I am today doing what I am now when I was in college. If I had an idea do you think I would have changed my major. God also knows the best way for us. He knows our strengths and our weaknesses and I have learned that through my whole life. I still might become a teacher in the public schools but in a different, easier way then taking the classes and tests in college. A way I didn't know was possible but God did back 6 years ago. Now I could probably stand those tests because I am okay with who I am now. This just goes to show that God knows us the best and His Timing is the BEST for our lives. Why do we doubt His Timing when only He knows what is BEST for us? These are only a few ways God is threading my life together. There are some more but I rather not share them on here.