majors and colleges and switches, oh my

As I sit here trying to decide what to write in my first post I feel as though I have a ton I could write, but where to start? I guess I will start with this- the purpose of this blog is to hopefully inform you on the life of a small town Iowa guy going into the ministry. I'm currently taking online classes at Moody Bible Institute and I absolutely love every minute of it. It's funny how God brought me to where I am at now. Growing up, and even through my senior year of high school, I was always one of those kids that said he would never ever switch majors and especially never switch colleges. I wanted to get in and get out as fast as possible, but God had very different plans for me. I went from a PE major to a business major to a business major with a religion minor then back to a PE major and a religion minor- that was almost painful to write- it took me back to the days when I was going between two advisors and two completely separate class schedules. Can you say STRESSFUL???? The funny thing is God still had different plans, because after all of my searching for the major that I wanted with the minor I wanted I could tell God wanted more of me. That's when I did a little internet searching and found Moody. It clicked right away- that is what God was calling me to do. Waiting for my official acceptance letter was even more stressful that anything else I had gone through that year. Finally after about two weeks of running out to the mailbox everyday hoping to finally see that envelope addressed to me and not the ones with the low rate credit cards, it came. The rest is obviously history, I was accepted and finally felt relieved that I was doing exactly what God was calling me to do. That is such a great feeling. I think I told everyone I know how I had finally felt in the right place with the right major and more importantly how honored I was that God was calling me so strongly to do his work. I had felt the tug on my heart to go into the ministry about as far back as I can remember. I just always shoved it in the back of my head thinking God would never call me to do his work. I type that with a smile on my face because not only am I going to school with the hopes of one day working in a church full-time, I already work at one part-time. It's like God new what he was doing all along- crazy concept, right?