This is Your Life

So here I am, the night before I leave for Guatemala. The last night that I'm going to sleep in my own bed for a week and a half, and I am writing a paper.

Good thing I have Pandora, right? What would I do without it?

This weekend was incredible. It was just the reminder I needed. I spent incredible time with my friends, and I am just so thankful that I have a loving, amazing, awesome group of supportive friends.
And now tonight, I'm writing this paper, and all of a sudden, as if Pandora knows exactly what lyric I need to hear, This is Your Life by Switchfoot starts playing.

This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be?

Goodness gracious. This isn't the life I want. I don't want to be stuck living in the future (which is what I have been doing lately). I want to appreciate what I have now. Of course I want to get married, get a real job, have kids, move on from school. But not now. Now, I need to appreciate the people I have the opportunity to live with. Now, I need to learn as much as I possibly can from school (that's why I'm here, don't ya know). I need to make as many relationships as possible, and enjoy them to the full extent before this chapter of my life closes.

It's hard to believe, but after this semester, I'll be half way done with my entire college career. After that, I don't have the slightest idea where I'll be going, what I'll be doing... But I know that now, I love school, I love my friends, my family, my church.

God is good. He is Faithful, Creator, Holy, Loving, and Sovereign. Thank goodness we can rely on Him to be these things, because we fall short. All day. Everyday.