With High School graduation two weeks away and launching for the race in 3 months, I have been overcome with an overwhelming amount of emotion. Things are getting very real!! Time has flown by the past year and keeps on passing by quickly.
Currently, my mom and I are in the process of selling our house that we have lived in for the past seventeen and half years. After we move out, knowing that it is no longer our house has been a very raw emotion that is hard to swallow.
With Graduation coming up, I have started to feel that once I walk across that stage everything that I have been working so hard for the past 4 years is finally here and I actually made it. It has made me realize that every single little thing that I got worked up about or stressed about, every year really was nothing. It meant nothing. It has no affect on me today and will have no affect on me tomorrow. But all of those little things have made me who I am today and I appreciate all I have learned in the classroom and outside the classroom.
Since the beginning of the year, I have had a shift in friends. That became something really hard for me to deal with the last 5 months of my senior year. I started going to school with my headphones in everyday and not talking to anyone, just trying to slide by and get my work done. People I thought I could trust as friends turned their back on me and I had to see them 5 out of 7 days a week.
I know that God has a plan for me and he is preparing me to serve him and others for the next 9 months. Everything thing that has happened and is happening right now is just making me stronger and more prepared for my future. And I could not be more thankful to everyone who has continuously supported me and been there for me while I deal with all these different emotions. I have been shown so much love and acceptance and I am unable to fully express the amount of gratitude I have for my family and friends.
“Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not dishonor others. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.” – 1 corinthians 13:4-7
“Therefore as Gods chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the lord forgave you and over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. and be thankful.” -Colossians 3:12-15
