3 weeks from today

So, today is the three weeks day. Exactly 3 weeks from today I shall be walking down a path with about 200 other seniors from Huntington University to walk across a stage when they call my name and receive my diploma. That's right, I'll be graduating (duh) but seriously how crazy is this?! Four years of sweat and tears and work and papers and tests... and all I get is a sheet of paper (okay not really but it kinda seems that way). It's a lot more than that... I've got experience and knowledge and understanding, I've grown in maturity and spirituality and in ways I can't possibly describe on here.

It's interesting to me how much can change in such a short time. I generally love and embrace change, I think it's fascinating, you cannot grow without change. There is, of course, a lot of change that isn't great. There is indeed change that seems impossible to bring about good. However, even the worst situations of change can be brought around and used for good. My first semester didn't really seem to bring about too much change, there was actually a lot of change (of course) but I seemed to fit right along with it all and I loved it. The second semester was a different story, it turned out that I didn't always handle change very well, but that was just the beginning and since then I have grown through more changes than I could possibly list. It's amazing how God teaches you so much through the toughest trials.

Anyway... post-college life for me will be a new change yet again! First for the summer I'll be working at Grace Community Church as an intern with the 0-3 children's ministry! That should be great! I'm also hoping to get a second job to work part time for a couple nights a week or something like that, because come this fall I am planning to move out to Portland, OR (or somewhere close to there) for grad school at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, getting my masters in Spiritual Formation. I am really excited about this! Pretty nervous too, but more so excited to see how God brings everything together and how I can continue to follow His will for me. I have hopes of where this would lead after about 3 years (not quite but close enough) but I really couldn't even begin to guess where God will lead me or what he would have me to do. All I can do is pray and be patient for when that time comes! If I've learned anything in these four years, I've learned that I can persevere through ANYTHING with the strength of Christ as my foothold.

Amen.