I am done. Yesterday at around 1:00 in the afternoon, I left the very last class I will ever have to take at Texas A&M University. I am left with one take-home final to be turned in online a week and a half from now. And that's it. Period. I'm done.
I'm struck with a sense of shock because I feel like I just got good at college. It's what I've been doing for the last three years, and I feel like I have just now gotten a real hang of it. However, it seems that this is a common thing for God to do to people - move them outside of where they are comfortable. It's like He wants us to learn new things or something.
There are a few things that I am more disappointed about having to leave, and friends are the primary item on the list. But then I consider how cool it is that God has moved so many of my friends to do similar tasks to the one I am called. Many are going to East Asia on short-term trips - some are going longer than others. Many are staying in College Station to continue to work as "senders," which in a lot of ways is more important that going. Some will continue on to grad school to get medical training so they can work as medical missionaries. Some have set their minds on other types of missions in places all over the world, and I am so excited to see where God takes them.
I can look back on my time here and see how much I have grown, and all the things I have learned have really made a difference in my life. I learned how to share my faith and how to be intentional about it. I learned how to disciple and how to be discipled. I learned how to be a little more patient. I learned how to listen just a little better. I learned how to study for an exam. I learned the value of doing things early. I learned that prayer DOES make a difference. I learned how to recognize my own shortcomings a little better, and how to avoid them, and then I learned how to get back up again after I fail.
Look out, world. Here I come.
I will be working at my church back home for the first half of the summer, and I am so excited about it. Ministry is the sweetest kind of work.
God bless! :)
