august 23, 2005

During orientation week freshman year I wrote a letter to myself on a 3x5 index card.  

I got the card back this morning after graduation practice.  It's strangely poignant.  

August 23, 2005

Just remember:

-What friends I've made

-What leaps of faith I've taken

-What causes I've furthered

-What God I've dedicated these years to

-What wisdom I've gained

-What love I've found

Oh, how I've been blessed.  

Now: Go & change the world. 

I'm 100% blown away as I think about the truth of each of these words.  The last few weeks have been some of the hardest weeks of my life.  Transition isn't a comfortable thing.  I've been struggling with feelings of failure and disappointment.  I've needed to hang in there and push through to get stuff done.  I've had to deal with problems and issues that were out of my control.  

But when I opened the envelope holding this note in it, a tears came to my eyes.  How could I have known the truth of needing to remember these things in this moment?  How could I have known that these reminders would even have memories to accompany them?  

All I can say is wow.  Wow to what God has planted and grown in my heart these past four years.  

And I don't know about changing the world anymore, but I know that I want to change the worlds of individuals.  That's how world changing starts, I guess, one person at a time.