Conversation #3: Prayer and Opportunity

Thank God for answered prayers!

In the last week I have had quite the experience.  But for it to truly make sense I have to fill you in on part of my prayer life from last year.

In the fall I took my first web design class, New Media Fundamentals.  I loved it immediately.  I had been a media minor for 1 ½ years, but this was something way better than my other media classes. 

At the same time I was taking this I was also realizing that I didn’t want to go to grad school.  I realized that I didn’t want to put in another three years of schooling to be a physical therapist, and I really wanted to produce web sites.

The problem is I was 2 ½ years into my degree and it was too late to change.  I spent a lot of time praying about it, and after talking with my professors decided that I would finish my psychobiology degree, and pursue career in web design.

Much of my prayer was concern about my future.  I knew physical therapy was safe.  (I like safe.)  Now I was switching into a field that changes as fast as any other, and I wouldn’t have a degree in it, and I would only be able to take 3-4 classes in it.

So I prayed that I would get experience somehow.  That was when I decided to go on the Boston Summer Project with Campus Crusade.  (check my summer blog out for details)

It was amazing, but I still didn’t get experience with web sites, because I was on the video team (which I wouldn’t have traded for anything).  So I was still a little concerned about my future.

Flash forward a month, and we’re in my web structure class, and God goes a step further.  This year the class will be working on two sites for actual clients.  By the end of the year I will have helped my team make a full specifications document, run customer analysis and focus groups, and will work with the client and the team to implement those plans into a fully functioning site.

I am very excited for this opportunity, and it is just amazing considering how much this was on my mind and in my prayers last year.  It goes to show that God works in incredible ways.  So, until next week.

All for the Glory of God.