What was your major?
What kind of job are you hoping to get?
What kind of career are you looking to pursue?
Where do you see yourself in ten years?
How long do you think it will take to pay back your student loans?
What are you going to do when you get back from the Race?
Do you have a plan?
The answer is…
No.
I don't have a plan.
And up until oh…I dont know an hour ago I was just as worried about these questions as everyone else.
However, as I sit here…worry is the farthest thing from my mind.
I feel content.
Happy.
Excited.
Maybe some of you are on the edge of your seat right now….
tell us why, tell us why!
While others are about ready to click that little X in the corner of their screen because I have already bored you beyond reason.
Either way,
Here is why I am not worried about the future.
Not worried about where I will live.
Not worried about what kind of career I get.
Not worried that I am 23 and not at all where I thought I'd be.
Not worried that I may never have a house with the picket fence.
I am not worried…
because those "goals" are not the reason I was created.
I was not created to earn a college degree.
I was not created to buy a house, rent a car, get a dream job, or have a plan.
I was created to be loved and to love in return.
The ultimate purpose of my life is to love Jesus with everything I have
and to love those He has placed on this earth.
This earth is not my home.
Although there are millions of things I love about this place including my:
family, friends, boyfriend, coffee, books, music, dancing, laughing, sunsets, beaches, snowballs, basketball shoes, swings, movies, driving, margaritas, clothes…
I love all of those things, I love Jesus above all else.
My home is with God.
I am by no means saying that all of those other things like a nice job and house arent ok, of course they are.
I'm just going to count on what life has taught me in many hard lessons…
and that is to stick with God.
All of those other things may or may not come later in life..
but when I stick with the Lord my life purpose has and will be fulfilled.
I know I have responsibilities within society.
But I have a responsibility to Jesus more.
He will help me become who and what I am meant to be.
I was put on this earth to love and be loved.
To love hard.
and long.
and near.
and far.
and extreme.
and fully.
and desperately.
and in spite of everything else.
So.
All else can take the back burner.
I will leave you with these last two statements….they shook me out of my comfort zone in the BEST way possible.
"Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life-fear of death, fear of judgment-is one not yet fully formed in love." -1 John 4:18
"Friends, this world is not your home. So don't make yourselves cozy in it. Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul." -1 Peter 2:11
