Right Where You Belong

This week as I wrapped up my final exams, (the very last, in-particularly), I started bubbling my answers & thought of how as a college student we put so much emphasis on things that will soon be small. We get anxious and stressed about these tests or projects or papers that are actually nothing in the big scheme of things. You'll probably graduate one day and then get into the real world, where the road to attain that degree seems like nothing, much like high school seemed a breeze in comparison to college, the reality of life now. You won't remember the exams or the chaos or struggle in courses, you'll remember the places, the people, the relationships, the fun, the degree.

Some days I catch myself feeling a bit overwhelmed, I call my mom and we talk it though. She always ends by telling me, "Danielle, so what? Even if the worst case scenario happened, you fail, then you retake it. It doesn't matter, it's not the end of the world." This rings in my ears when I start overlooking the good and focusing on the worst-case scenario because it doesn't matter. When we are gone, our lives won't be measured by our small discreet successes, it will be measured by the lives we affected in our time on Earth and by our Faith when we stand for judgement.

If we stressed less and put more of our energy into encouraging others instead of complaining, we might start to do something that will matter in the long run. We might discover that we are strong enough to overcome the things that are temporary to affect things that are forever.

Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19:21

The road may be long, but you'll end up exactly where you're supposed to be, despite yourself,
thank God.