I am 6 days, 2 projects, 1 paper, and 2 finals away from being completely finished with college. Um, excuse me, what?! It's a pretty surreal feeling and of course brings on all kinds of sentimental and nostalgic feelings. (yes, even for a thinker like me.)
For me, the overall sentiment that I have towards wrapping up college is that, "I'm not who I was." College has been an extremely challenging growth process for me. It's been a time where God has challenged me in my faith and in my walk with Him. He's made me take the steps necessary to figure out WHY I believe what I believe. He's stretched me in every way I thought possible (and will continue to do so.) He's brought incredible people into my life that will be around for a lot longer than 4 years. He's also kept people in my life that were here before college. And He's continued to remind me how much of this growth process is a result of lifelong discipleship from my parents.
Proverbs 22:6 is one of my mom's favorite verses and consequently is one that I heard frequently growing up. It says, "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it."
I did not quite understand it growing up, but I get it now and am so blessed to come from a family where this verse was a top priority.
So, thank you mommy dearest. For teaching me the ways of the Lord so young that I do not remember what it was like not to know Jesus. For being selfless and sacrificial. For waking up before the sun rises to spend time with Jesus. For listening and encouraging. For having a passion for life that's contagious. For letting me drink coffee at 11. For passing on your love for shoes, the beach, big dogs and seeing the world. For showing me what being a godly wife looks like. For passing on the gift of discernment.
But most of all, thank you for teaching me that the Lord's will comes first. And that God never gives people different answers. Thank you for encouraging me to seek the Lord's will for my life wholeheartedly, even when it takes me across the world. i love you more than the sky. Happy (late) Mother's Day.
Okay, 6 days. 2 projects. 1 paper. 2 finals.
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2
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