Calloused Hands

If you search my family history, you will find a farmer whose crops lasted through the great depression. You will find a woman that treated illnesses that threatened her tribe of the Navajos. If you search, you will find a famous piano player and harpist. You will find an entrepreneur and a baker. If you search my family history what you will not find is a college graduate. Ever since I can remember, my mother and father have told me how important it is to go to college. How they wish they had the opportunities I have been given so that they could get a degree.

I would never say that everyone needs to go to college to be happy, or successful. That completely depends on what your definition of those terms are. I will, however, say that the lord expects us to be good stewards of the talent he has given each one of us. Be it academically, musically, socially, or monetarily. He wants us to reap a plentiful harvest with calloused hands and sun kissed skin saying we did as much as we could with everything we were given.

I am about to enter my second year of college. I am a year behind of where I should be, but hopefully my maturity in other areas of my life, will somehow balance this out. After all, I didn't spend this past year twiddling my thumbs and building sandcastles... only to be washed away with the increasing of the tides. This next year will be incredible. I can feel it. That feeling you get on Christmas morning when you are opening presents. that one present, for some reason, tucked away in the corner, you just know it will rock our face off. That's exactly how I feel about this year. I got my scholarship award letter a couple of days ago. The Lord is entrusting me with a chunk of change, and I really want to be a good steward of that. I want to learn everything I can from my professors and peers. I want to read every page I am given. I want to struggle and wrestle with the text. I don't want to wait til the last minute to start a paper. I want to have intentional community with my roommates and friends. I want to be able to look back and have no regrets. I want to walk with the Lord boldly. I want to love others deeply. not just romantically. What an adventure this next season holds.


Bring it on.