So this past Saturday I grauated from college! Granted I already had my dimploma from finishing my classes a semester early but non the less participating in the graduation ceremony made it feel real! This past weekened through all the excitment and fun I was having with my family and friends I couldn't help but reflect a little on what led me to this new stage in my life and on to these next steps. I was thinking about all the other directions I tried to move in during my four years at school and all the other paths I was going to take right after graduating. It makes me laugh a little to think about all my plans that fell through, and thank God they did becuase I know now they would not have been the best for me. And all of it made it possible so that after graduating I could go on the world race and know for sure that this was my next step. A theme of the graduation speech was a challenge to live out your life in such a way that what you do everyday outlast your own lives and has meaning even after your gone. There is really a feeling you get right after finishing up college where you belive that you can honestly make a difference and do anything. Of course sadly these feelings change almost instantly when you are thrown into the "real world" and are replaced with feelings of fear sometimes and contentment. But this doesnt have to be the case, and if we belive that there really is a plan for our lives and a God that is in charge of all of it then this attitude of hope and joy should be what we default to, and not something only for certain people. I really belive though that for most people finding thier calling is a proess and doesnt happen overnight. There are many steps that lead to what you want or think you should do in life. What makes it hard is staying focused on the end goal especially in seasons in your life when it can seem like not much is happening. But any of that does not diminish the importance of the calling anyone has on thier lives or the calling I have on my life. And when you know what you are suppose to do with your life or where you are suppose to be why not run towards anything that furthers that calling and in the same way run away from things that don't.
