Before I begin this blog, I would like to apologize for dropping off the face of planet earth for the past two weeks. I’m sorry for slacking! I will do better in the future.

Now, let the blogging begin!

I majored in music for my undergrad, and one of the coolest things I get to do is go to my friends’ junior and senior recitals. They perform 30-45 minutes of music they have worked on throughout their years of music major-hood. Last week, I got to hear my friend play her senior clarinet recital (which was awesome, by the way), and her final piece was an arrangement for clarinet ensemble of Journey’s power ballad “Don’t Stop Believin’.” I heard the song on the radio the next day and immediately thought of my friend (which made me smile), and then I thought about the words of the song and how to — you guessed it — apply them to my life.

I got my first rejection letter from a med school last week. Not fun. So I’ve been pondering rejection lately, and have decided that no matter what the rejection is, we have to move on with our lives and make space for whatever blessing God has in store for us. And we can only do that if we…(cue the music please)…

Don’t stop believing! Think about it: if I just constantly sat and wallowed in my misery about not getting into XYZ Medical School and never got over it, I’d be too depressed to finish my other applications. If I didn’t finish my other applications, I wouldn’t get in anywhere. And then I’d never live my dream of being a doctor. So I chose — and am still choosing — to continue on, believing that I will be accepted by the right school for me.

Moving on after setbacks in our lives is an act of faith. Moving on shows that we trust in something greater than ourselves, that we trust that something wonderful could happen to us…because it just might. So take some advice from Journey (and me) on this one and don’t stop believing. You never know what absolutely fabulous things are waiting for you if you make room for them