Today is a date which will live in infamy! So dramatic I know lol but today was the last day I will ever set foot in a LaGrange College classroom. For the past 4 years of my life I have spent countless hours studying, writing papers, etc. all in hopes of someday graduating college. There were points during my college career where I honestly did not think I would make it. Coming into college I never could have fathomed the incredible plans God had in store…
Over these past few years my walk with Christ has been an insane, emotional, crazy rollercoaster ride. I have had some of the best memories and the darkest memories of my life here. The summer before I came to LaGrange in 2008, I was recently baptized and saved. I dedicated my life to Christ and came into college having no clue what it meant to truly live my life for Jesus.
LaGrange has been the place where the Lord took me from a “baby” Christian and molded me into His image. The years I have spent here have been some of the most precious times of my life because LaGrange is where I really fell in love with Jesus.
It is quite bittersweet to be graduating next week. I am so excited to see what the Lord has in store and although I still don’t feel prepared to be a missionary, I know God doesn’t call the qualified but He qualifies the called. It is difficult knowing that I am leaving LaGrange and I will probably never be back here. Yet I know that God has used this place to forever change my life and I will always remain grateful for the things He has done here.
But onward we go! God has grown me so much through my years in college, but I know He has greater plans for me ahead. I absolutely cannot wait to serve on the World Race in just a few short weeks. If you would have asked me freshman year what my plans were after graduation, being a missionary would have been the last on my list. Thankfully, God has ignited a passion in my heart to serve on the mission field and going on the World Race is the greatest gift I could have ever asked for
