Do you ever have those moments when you feel like the Universe is just... speaking to you? Aware of you?
(I can hear my husband's voice in the back of my head: "Here we go...")
I do. Fairly often. And sometimes these moments are fairly silly, seemingly un-spiritual, or overly dramatized.
But I believe that God can and will speak to us in whatever way we are willing to hear.
Which brings me to this spikey-haired, blue-eyed character that has provided quite the conversation piece lately, thanks to a pair of socks my husband got me for Christmas.
The whole topic is a can of worms, I've decided, because everyone has such different beliefs about how to best spend their time and money, especially in early married life when planning and preparing for the future.
This video: hilarious. As it ended, Shad and I looked at each other with smiling but slightly concerned expressions: "That's not us, right?"
The travel guru girl represents our attitude in some ways, I guess, but she doesn't represent our financial situation. Shad and I joke about how we don't really budget or pay attention to our finances because there's no money to manage! And yet, somehow we've spent a combined total of about seven months abroad since we've been married (and that's not including Shad's six-week study abroad last summer).
That's pretty cool. And has caused me to think a lot lately about how in the world it happened.
I have almost scrapped this post multiple times because I'm so humbled when I think about all the support we've received from family and friends since we've been married ("Forget it! None of this would've happened without them!"). But I know there are steps that Shad and I have taken as well to make "our dreams become realities... and some of our realities become dreams."
So, despite the potential "yeah, but"s of this post, I write to reflect on our experience with my younger siblings in mind, who can still take advantage of traveling as students if they'd like to. Because that's what we did: capitalized on our time in college when schedules are more flexible, expenses less permanent and opportunities abound.
