WOW. It's the middle of May already. I'm in my last month at UCLA. The past four years have gone by so quickly. So many beautiful memories from these years in college. Looking back, God has changed me and my plans so so so much. In about two weeks, I will start getting sentimental. In a month, one chapter of God's life for me will close. In two months, another will open. I never thought I would want to be an elementary school teacher. Yet, I will be at my dream school from four years ago, and maybe still is (UPenn). But I'll be in a different area of study (Elementary Education) than where I originally thought (Business). I will walk out of my elementary education building and see across from me, the gym (a reminder to exercise, my worst discipline), and beside me, the Wharton School of Business (a reminder of how much God has changed in my life). God is too funny.
I can see the trials ahead of me: of being away from the church that has been my safe haven for the last four years, of having to find a new church that will challenge me the way Grace Community Church has, of being in a different coast and culture, of being in super cold weather (I've been in California all my life!), of being away from my family and friends, of being in a school whose name will feed my pride. But I have God, and He is all that I will ever need, and this next year will teach me even more of what that means. And Lord-willing, I will come back to California next May stronger in my faith than I am now.
Today, I read James 1:2-4: "Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." God is perfect and sovereign.
