Entering into this last semester of college I didn't really know what to think. I was taking a bible class, history class and physics gen ed class. How am I going to balance taking classes in three completely different subject areas? Its the second semester of my senior year of college and I want to have fun and enjoying being with my friends. I don't want to balance three completely different classes in three worlds. Well I was wrong! My classes this semester have all somehow or another focused on our postmodern community and how individualistic our community has become. Our modern culture focused on self preservation, looking out for me and me alone. Everyone is looking out for how they can succeed, how they will get the advantage over others instead of working towards a greater good. However our society is in a transition from a modernism to postmodernism. Postmodernist thinkers are starting to gravitate to a more community focused attitude. This shift is show in how social justice and working in non-profit organization is become very popular in our generation! Our generation is helping the transition from a focus on individualism to community.
All that jargon is meant to explain my thoughts and reflection about my upcoming world race adventure! The world race has an intense emphasis on community, focusing on the participants to grow together, working towards getting to know ourselves, each other and Christ more deeply. Having been at Wheaton College for the last four years, Christian community has been a huge focus in my education. And realizing that this community which I have loved to much is ending is terrifying. And though I want to embrace my Wheaton community for the last few weeks I have left, graduation is a time where every senior becomes very self focused. We are trying to figure out where we are going next, what I need to do to graduate, how I am going to get all my stuff home (2000 miles away AWWWW), what I want to do etc. I've been struggling between being a part of the moment; the community the Lord has blessed me with for the last 4 years and being future focused, dwelling on what I need to do to get home, what job I need to get for the summer and what I am doing for the fall. But I have been so grateful to get a glimpse of the community I will be entering into in the fall. It’s so encouraging in this time of intense transition to know what I am entering into in just a few short months. Overall, it’s been a strange conflict and it’s so funny how God has connected my last semester of classes with the real life struggles of graduation and the future!!! But the Lord has been so good with providing me peace and people in my life to help me through it.
