Today I write my first blog post. I was accepted over a month ago, but I’ve had to take care of many things before I could even relax enough to write my first blog post (Which is also my own fault). When I first got to college almost two years ago I experienced much freedom. I also started to learn how to be an adult. Since then life has not been slowing down, but now I have been challenged with optimizing my time management.
I feel as if my journey never really started until I left my parent’s home in the Fall of 2012. Rolla, (Missouri University of Science & Technology). There I learned that I had not yet figured out who I was. There I got to find out what my faith really was to me. I lived at Kappa Sigma so it was hard to not fall into secular ways. After a while those substances did nothing to me and a good friend, Sean, who was also in my fraternity tried to help me get back on my feet. I was struggling.
I came back home to Foristell, MO. I started to get involved with my home church, Morning Star in Dardenne Prairie. I became an intern with High School Ministries, but at times it was awkward because some of the youth I was in charge of had been in the same small group as me when I was in high school. While I’ve been home I have also faced some struggles and I’m slowly working on them day be day. When I got accepted to the Gap Year program it was awkward, I was excited, but the people close to me were not like my parents and my girlfriend. As time goes by I pray that God will soften their hearts to what He has planned for my life and continue to work in my life.
I know I’m going to go on this “awesome” mission and it will be fun and challenging, but at the end of the day I am still a broken human being just like everyone else that needs God. Everyone is different and everyone has a different calling.
Here’s a quote that a friend shared with me today that made me think,
“What is more Christ like, feeding the poor, making furniture, cleaning bathrooms, or painting a sunset? There is a schism between the sacred and the secular in all our modern minds. The view that a pastor is more Christian than a girls volleyball coach is flawed and heretical. The stance that a worship leader is more spiritual than a janitor is condescending and flawed.”
-Jon Foreman
