The last four years have been made up of all the emotions that someone could have, but in the end I have been very blessed. It is always strange to say goodbye to one season and welcome another. Some seasons are not as bright as others. Some are painful, hard, lonely, sad, angry, etc. Even the bright seasons come with their many challenges. Today I call myself a college graduate! I hope that what's next is a season full of challenges. I beg for them really, because I know through perseverance comes the testing of my faith. The testing will show my true blood. Will I bleed Christ or will I bleed only my insufficient flesh? I will be the first to admit that I cried yesterday as I packed up four years and said goodbye. A World race teammate thankfully reminded me this week that there is a time for everything. There is a season for everything.
I will always remember this season as the one in which…
I went to a school I knew one person at and left with a number of very close friends.
The friends I would do ministry with for four years would be the same friends that randomly helped me move
my stuff into the square box that would be my home for a year and a half.
I got to be apart of a ministry start up for middle school kids in the area called WyldLife.
I found the greatest friends one could ever have, who pushed me to put my faith in Christ alone.
I became independent, but closer to my parents than I ever have been.
I experienced heartbreak, but also the mending of my heart.
I completed four years of school and stuck with it even through the millions of thoughts of being a failure.
I became a bit more spontaneous.
I was challenged.
Learned it’s okay to tell people how you really are feeling.
Went hiking in Wyoming with just one friend, a pack, and some food.
Went caving for the first time and sang old hymns in the cave with all the lights out recognizing that Christ is still present when there is nothing/ was nothing.
Swam underneath a few waterfalls.
Ran a few half marathons.
Worked in Colorado for a month one summer.
Took a few vacations to the beach with friends who can never be replaced.
I could write for hours about the past four years, but never be able to do them justice. My heart is filled with so much joy as I have sat down to write about the season that I am exiting. I keep getting the question, so how does it feel? Truthfully I feel no different than yesterday or the day before that, but it has made the season that I am entering became more tangible. I leave in thirteen days to spend a week with my teammates, embracing many of them for the first time. I remember well the seed that was planted in my head about doing the World Race. I had no idea that time would fly by so fast and that I would be leaving before I knew it. Change is good and it’s okay to look back and think, how could life be more blessed than it has been? God requires change though. He requires that we give all to him and that is what I am prepared to do in this season and every season to come. I am not scared of what is to come because I have an amazing creator who walks with me and in me the whole time I am here on this earth.
I Just want to say thank you to those who are supporting me in the next season of my life and thank you to those who have supported me already through seasons in the past.
