a lesson learned in discipling a teen

you know, it's not always about what you want and it's not always about what the teen wants. but sometimes, just sometimes, it could be about what the parents want. scary.

this is what happens when you try and tell a bunch of college kids they are in violation of the "no more than two unrelated people can live together" law. it just doesn't work.

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the western horizon burned orange, fading to purple, then gray
as it chased the afternoon thunderstorm away.

i heard someone say once that often times the harder the risk, the greater the reward. although we didn't have much of a storm tonight i was reminded of this as i watched the setting sun burn away the threatening clouds. i've been having sort of a melancholy week. i think my perserverence is being tested. some how tonight was an encouragement to keep running the race regardless of the weather.

sometimes i fail to realize how small my thinking can be. that my big ideas are no bigger than me.

it's weird to think that if i had done things differently, maybe even the normal way, i would have been graduating this week. But instead i am looking at about a year and a half more of school give or take a semester. sometimes i feel like i am never going to finish. every once in a while i think back and if i could do it all over again i would probably would have gone to some two year design school or something like that. but i don't regret anything. God has graced me with so many experiences and memories, trials and errors, upbeats and beat-downs. the path i am taking, although seemingly long and financially draining, i believe to be a path i could have never dreamed up myself. i know that God has a plan for me and i know that God's plan is at work now. not tomorrow, not ten years from now, but something i am currently stumbling through. i don't see past mistakes as regrets but as an experience. something to learn from. i try not to worry to much about the future. i know the decisions i make today effect tomorrow, but you know what? i'm sure there are going to be some decisions to be made tomorrow also. i guess what i am trying to say is that you can't plan too far ahead. i've changed majors three times now and i have to say that the further i've gone in life the better it has gotten. despite all my mistakes. it's by God's grace that i am here.

so i am not graduating this year. so what. i love school. i really feel sorry for all the kids who are just doing it to get through. what a sucky way to enter the "real world."

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