I'm about to graduate from OU and move back home to Ohio. For normal people who graduate from college, moving back home means only a few hundred miles or so. It also means they can usually make a few trips back to their alma mater in order to visit friends. I'm not exactly a normal person. Moving back home means leaving and probably not coming back to Oklahoma for years to come. Gosh, I'm already in tears just thinking about it.
The memories and friendships I have here mean more to me than I can explain. God has given me some of the best and truest friends a girl could ask for and I am immeasurably blessed by them each and every day.
Graduation is crazy and there is so much stuff going on that is really exciting! Like obviously a diploma. And a graduation get together with all my friends. And CAKE. Yet leaving my friends, moving out of my apartment, and no longer being in school have made my heart heavy. This is my life. And I'm just walking away. Well, driving actually, but still.
I'm kind of at that weird place in life where I just LOVE LOVE LOVE where I am and what I'm doing. With a few minor changes, I'm pretty sure I could keep doing this forever. Yet I know deep down in my soul that I can't.
God has not called me to a life of complacency. Actually, he hasn't called any of us to that. He has not said to us, "Okay, get comfortable, because I don't actually want you to do anything too strenuous/difficult/stretching/fill in the blank." God has called us to get uncomfortable and radical, to get up off our butts and DO something for HIS glory.
It doesn't say when you get around to it, go
Nor does it say if you feel like it, go
And it definitely doesn't say if you're comfortable with it, go
Therefore, GO.
Because of your life experiences, GO.
In spite of your mistakes, GO.
Leave your comfort zone and, GO.
I'm GOing on the World Race. Chances are, you probably aren't (unless of course, you're one of my fellow Racers, in which case shout out to you! I can't wait to see how God uses your GO!). But you are still called to go. Go next door to your neighbor's house. Go to your school. Go to work. Go to McDonald's for all I care.
JUST GO!
