Six days ago, I was living in Northern Virginia, riding the metro and wearing a pencil skirt. Today, I drove a car past dairy farms and cornfields, and did anything but dress professionally. Tomorrow, I'll leave my hometown and won't return until the snow flies.
These days it seems my time anywhere is brief. It's the life of a college student, I guess. From college to home, back to college to summer internships to college again, it's a challenge to leave much of an impact in the communities of which I'm privileged to be a part. I so desire to make a difference, and thus knowing that there's a time for everything has brought me huge hope.
These days it seems my time anywhere is brief. It's the life of a college student, I guess. From college to home, back to college to summer internships to college again, it's a challenge to leave much of an impact in the communities of which I'm privileged to be a part. I so desire to make a difference, and thus knowing that there's a time for everything has brought me huge hope.
"To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven."
-Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV)
This verse popped into my head as I felt essentially like a visitor in my own church and a guest in my own house. It came to life as I wept for what I missed and desired what is to come. It reminded me that tears are OK now because laughter and unspeakable joy are coming.
"A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance."
-Ecclesiastes 3:4 (NKJV)
It flooded me with memories of all the seasons I've seen in my young life - those that I get to cherish my family closely and those that I get to love on them from afar.
"...A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing."
-Ecclesiastes 3:5 (NKJV)
It comforted me in that though life changes, no one has successfully put the brakes on it. I'm not alone. It challenges me in that around every corner is a new adventure - one which my introverted self strangely enjoys. Life is a series of new beginnings and a collection of memories.
"A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;
A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence;
And a time to speak."
-Ecclesiastes 3:6-7 (NKJV)
And this gives me hope, because how I lived yesterday is not how I must live today. What I see now is not what I may see tomorrow - God's got the bigger picture, thank goodness, not me.
So tonight I'm trusting in God's timing, not mine. As I begin life as a college senior, I have dreams and ambitions, hopes and fears, deadlines to meet and sleep to get. Come along with me for the ride - I guarantee you it will be crazy, but I also guarantee you that in hindsight, God's sovereignty will be so evident.
I'll do my best to write my thoughts as one last hoorah for the college years. It may be messy, but remember, there's a time when beauty will shine from these ashes.
-AD
So tonight I'm trusting in God's timing, not mine. As I begin life as a college senior, I have dreams and ambitions, hopes and fears, deadlines to meet and sleep to get. Come along with me for the ride - I guarantee you it will be crazy, but I also guarantee you that in hindsight, God's sovereignty will be so evident.
I'll do my best to write my thoughts as one last hoorah for the college years. It may be messy, but remember, there's a time when beauty will shine from these ashes.
-AD