I’ve been talking a lot about college the last couple days. My plans were to stay here, go to Leavell college, and intern at CBG, but Pastor Matt says I’m too smart to stay down here.
I dunno how I’m gonna afford college, but I know if God wants me there he’ll provide a way. Even though Leavell is really cheap, I feel like if I go there I’m just going for a piece of paper. If I go to college full time and live on campus I’d be meeting people for networking and growing in my faith a lot.
I want to get something out of college more then anything. I’ve really been looking at Liberty in Virginia. It’s more conservative then I’m used to but I’ve always liked the idea of dressing up for church. I wish I could do it more.
I can’t wait to get out of Florida now. I want to get out of high school so much. I feel like I’m just killing time, because honestly I’m not really learning anything that will help me in the world. I love my math classes like all get out, but calc and physics won’t really help me every day as a pastor.
And Matt thinks I’m settling by being a pastor, and thinks I should be a doctor or something at the same time. But God’s called me to full time ministry and i really don’t think I care about how he feels about it. Or my dad. My dad doesn’t approve but at least he’s accepting of it.
This is great, man, that you’re starting to think about college and stuff now. I know how you feel, since I’m a whole year closer than you are; I’m in the thick of the college process right now. The biggest and best thing you can do for the next year is pray. Keep praying about your calling and where God wants you to go for college. I’ve been doing that, and I need to keep doing it. I know that Pastors Justin, Russell, and Matt have been praying for God to direct my heart, and it seems like I’m getting an answer. I thought I wanted to go to UF and live by math and science and whatnot, but I’ve felt a turn of heart, and now I want to go to UM to stay close to home and be a Creative Writing major.
Just keep praying about it all. All day, errday. And God will show you exactly what you need to do. It’s always great to stay close to home, but God may have grander plans in store for both of us. Godspeed to us all.