A Semester's End/Glass Walls

Ahem...

Honestly, I don't think that I have ever been more excited for a semester to end...

Two Reasons:
1) This has been the most difficult semester to date. I have had more pages of writing required, more pages of reading required, more hours of homework required than ever before...and I'm ready for a break...
2) Next semester I have only 13 credits...THANK YOU JESUS! My entire college career has been centered around 17-19 credit semesters--this will be a well-needed break...

Not only do I have a past that I'm longing to get away from, but I also have a future that I'm looking forward to...see how that works?

Funny story:

So today, I was walking through the St. Louis Mills mall with some friends. We were making our way to the exit when one of the funniest things happened (funny in a morbid, twisted way, but funny nonetheless). Coming towards us was a family--mother, father, 2 year old(ish) child. The mom and dad were slightly in front of the child, who was in his own little world. The parents had just passed the corner of a store that slightly protruded from the line of the rest of the stores (maybe 3 feet). Well the child, being in his own little world, didn't really acknowledge that particular corner...that is until he ran right into it.
I promise you, I didn't know a head banging on glass could make that loud of a noise. As the parents collected the disheveled boy from the crumpled heap where he lay screaming, we continued walking by while stifling our laughter.
It was a moment, it was quite a moment.

Sometimes I have had those types of moments.

I can be walking along, minding my own business, living life in a dandy sort of way when...BAM! I hit a wall. My previous course of action was working just fine--that is until the wall intersected my path. Life is full of adjustments, and I am convinced that God places walls in our lives so that, while we may experience the random bruise or goose-egg, we escape the greater danger (broken or missing limbs, etc).

Isn't it funny how an unexpected dead end will change the direction you're traveling. I have been trying to get places before (I am horrible with directions) and turned down the "correct street" only to realize that it ends before my intended destination. I must turn around and find an alternate route. The destination remains the same, but the route slightly changes.

I hate it when I can see my destination through the glass wall, or through the trees lining the dead-end, but there is no apparent route to that destination...

God, you got any maps?