“When you are waiting for the door to open, dance in the hallway.”
There’s a moment in your life, where you are transitioning from one place to another, and it's a waiting period. This could be your senior year when you're graduating and waiting to find out about where you're going to college. Or maybe you are waiting to find out about a job, and aren’t really sure what you are doing. For me, Link Year is coming to an end in a month, and I still have no idea what I am doing after. I have options, and they are all amazing, but I feel like I have nothing set, yet. I am waiting for God to confirm things in me about the future. And, honestly, I feel stuck in a hallway right now. One door is creeping shut, and no others are fully open, yet. It is easy for me to feel trapped - to start and panic about the next door I am going to walk through.
Like every other girl, I was scrolling through Pinterest and came across this quote. As most of you know, I struggle with anxiety, and especially have been wrestling with it a lot right now. Situations often cause me to be uncomfortable and develop the uneasy anxiousness in me to spark back up, and this season has been filled with those. The truth is that I know, eventually, God will open up a door for me to walk through, it will just be in His timing, not mine. It’s not always easy to believe it, or doesn't always FEEL true, but the reality is that it IS true. As Adam Donyes always says, “Feelings are real, just not reliable.” So my job, and all of your jobs, if you can relate in any way, is to dance in the hallways. I know He has a plan for me, and if you are in the same boat as me, He has a plan for you, also. He has a path for everyone, we just have to choose to follow it. There will always be seasons of unknown. God doesn't ask us to just praise Him in the good times. We are to worship Him through any room, any hallway, or any season we are in. Even when it’s hard, we are expected to dance, to praise.