With My Ultimatums

I always find it amusing when the one thing I swear I will never do because I just don't want to ends up being the thing God calls me to. I have a friend that used to teach 7th grade English. That sounded like hell to me. For one, teaching English, and secondly, to 7th graders would be terrible, or so I used to think. I swore I would never teach. I thought teaching was the hardest and most stressfull thing. I am now pursuing a career in teaching. I also decided I didn't wanna work with middle schoolers, that I mainly wanted to work with highschoolers. Middle school is a crazy time and I wanted to stay away from that. This last 9 months has caused me to eat my words. I have helped with the middle school youth group since last may and I am now starting as the assistent coach for the FEAST middle school softball team AND I am about to start service learning hours at Driscoll middle school for my kinesiology class. I just find it amusing because I never wanted to work with middle schoolers and now I am totally surrounded by them, except the beauty of it all is that I love it. I always thought that when people said "Oh I never want to do that" and then God asks them to do it that it was to spite them or something, but now I am seeing that they grow through it and often times just don't realize that they would love it. My two rules for me future were that I never want to marry military and I never ever want to go to China...or at least stay for very long, like as a missionary. Both have their explanations but I am gonna laugh if a few years down the road I find myself in one or both of those positions lol. I can just see it now. There is something, though, about giving our fears over to God and watching Him pull through with something we fear. That is a very hard thing for me to do despite His consistency there. This is definitely something that has been on my mind lately.