One Dream Per Customer

Ever notice how when one thing goes right in your life, how anything feels possible? Ever since I got my dream job of working for a vet, my other dreams suddenly seem reachable as well. Maybe when I’m at the clinic I’ll meet Mr. Right, and I’ll finally get married and can start having children. But then I turn back to my logical/realistic (or call it cynical!) senses, and think that we are all only allowed one dream to come true in a life time. If so, could I then find happiness now that I have the job I’ve always wanted? To be honest, I don’t know. I don’t think any career would ever fill the void in my heart of wanting to be a wife and mother. That does not in any way mean I am not ecstatic about the new job or extremely humbled and thankful to God for the amazing gift.
So when do we quit asking for blessings? It seems selfish to ask for more. Thanks God, but now I want… It’s like in the movie “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory,” when the spoiled little girl, Veruca, finally gets the golden ticket she insists her father find for her. When he presents her w/ the ticket, she does not thank him but instead coldly looks at him and says, “Daddy, I want another pony.” Yikes! I never want to be that girl!
So here’s the funny thing, just as I was finally done w/ all the edits of my novel (thanks in part to my moms help) making the last minute changes, and only 1 step away from sending it in to be copy written (thanks to my dad for offering to pay the fee), my computer disc that I had my novel saved on, “ate” my book (the whole thing disappeared from the disc). Sorry for the run-on sentence! I only have 10 chapters saved to the computer. So here I was, one step away from the dream of having my novel not only finally finished, but also copy written. Yet now, I have to re-type roughly 300 pages. So this takes me back to my “one dream at a time” question.
I know this is really long, but I’m almost finished. I do not believe God sits in heaven keeping track of how many blessings we receive and then either says, “No more for you,” or then takes one away to balance things out. I have heard many times over & believe that God is like any other kind father: He wants us to be as happy as we can possibly be. He wants to fill our cups to overflowing. So perhaps I still have a chance of getting married & having kids & perhaps I’ll even have the chance of submitting my novel to publishers and seeing it on a book shelf some day. But even if I lose my current job and no other dreams come true, I will always trust that God has my best interest in mind.

The photo is of the 2 book covers I made (even though I’ve only written 1 chapter to book 2). On the shelf are statues of animals that represent characters in the novels.