Elementary school was great, no I take that back, awesome. Man, especially in the winter time, we would make the COOLEST forts. Digging for what seemed for hours in the snow banks with all of our little might, only to find out that the mean 6th graders would knock them down and fill our holes with snow. Awe man. And what about lunch? I still remember the excitement about pizza day, that was truely a slice of heaven on a lunch tray. Oh, and don't forget all of the awesome school supplies that would take you the entire night before to play "tetris" to try and get it all to fit into your back pack. Wow, those were the days.

Now, imagine taking the same kid all bundled up in snow boots and snow pants ready to go out and play in the snow after eating thier hot lunch. And imagine them so frustrated with their life, all because they are not ready to go to college right now. Now, I don't know about you, but I think we would agree that this is silly. The child is still in elementary school, they just started this journey of life. They have so many things to enjoy, good or bad. They have to be the kids destroying snow forts, go on to middle school, experience akward middle school dancing, get their drivers licensce, and graduate from high school. Not to mention the twelve years everyday that they will spend in the classroom, learning and studying, to become proficient and educated enough to apply to college. It sounds so silly when applied to school, but somehow in our relationship with God, we expect this from ourselves and God.

Faith is a journey. You can not gain an all encompassing knowledge of God without going through the process of living. Just like growing up and going through school, there will be good times, there will be bad times, and even like middle school dances, akward times when we are just trying to fit into our new skin. Just like in first grade when we couldn't wake up and expect to have the knowledge a student in college has, we can not wake up expecting to know everything about God and to live a perfect life without going through the journey. It will take years of devotion at His feet, sitting and listening and hanging on to every word He speaks our way. And as a college senior looking back at my journey through school, I can not imagine that me - the same kid who devoted their life to snow forts and pizza in the cafeteria, could be at a prestigious university doing all that I do. And someday I believe when we are in heaven, we will look back with God over our journey and be in awe of what he has created out of our simply earthly bodies who are willing to work for Him.

Father, I pray that I would begin to appreciate the journey and each step that you guide me in.

"Your attitude should be the same as that of Jesus Christ: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness." - Phililppians 2:5-7