The L-rd works in mysterious ways. If you had asked me two
years ago what I would be doing after high school I would have said studying
marine biology at Oregon State University and being apart of a huge school.
Where I am today is the complete opposite. I am going to a vastly growing
although small scale school in Arizona, my home state. If you had asked me at
the start of my first year of college where I would be in a six months or a
year, the answer would have been I don’t know everything but hopefully being an
RA. Do you notice how none of my answers include G-d, or include what His plans
for me are? That’s because a year ago I had no relationship. It was my way or
the highway. For whatever reason my senior year of high school I got the sudden
urge to look at Grand Canyon University. I fell in love with it and knew that
it was where I would spend the next four years. I fell in love with the school
when I got there and I still love it.. At the beginning of the year I did get
the little inkling to switch school. I wanted to be in a sorority, go to
football games, and be in a whole new state exploring different things. Again,
what I wanted, not G-d. I decided to get involved in school. Applying for
Freshman Class Council was the best idea that I ever felt led to do. When I saw
the poster in my hallway it practically screamed at me. So with G-d’s blessing
I was one of the 16 out of 130 to receive a position.
The people
I met in FCC were put in my life for a very special reason. I don’t know if
they fully understand how much of an impact on my life they had made. G-d used
them to show me His love. They reached out to me in their own ways, each of
them slowly building relationships with me. I knew why they were so accepting
and so loving. They had a light in their life and a fire in their heart. I
wanted it. And for the first time in my life my plan and His plan matched up. I
started asking G-d what He wanted me to do. I decided I would be an RA, surely
G-d wants me as a student leader and I want to be an RA it will match up
perfectly. Wrong. If I were to receive RA I would sacrifice living with my two
best friends and sacrificing being constantly surrounded by the people I had
grown with over the course of the year through ASGCU. But hey, I was willing to
sacrifice it for what I wanted.
G-d had
other plans. I didn’t get RA. And at first I was sad and angry. Then I realized
I would get to room with my friends next year and I felt a little better. Then
I got a call from the leader of ASGCU saying I received an interview for ASGCU
next year. A week later I received the position of senator. The more I thought
and prayed about it I realized that G-d had put these people in my life for a
reason and they were not meant to go anywhere. They have grown with me in my relationship with Christ and just recently
they were the people to baptize me. At a leadership retreat I felt G-d saying
that it was time to surrender everything over to Him and to make it a public
proclamation. So April 14, 2015 that is what I did. I got Jesus Dunked and it
rocked. Family, friends, and the people who helped me grow this year praying
for me and saying how proud they are of me was the best feeling. Aside from the
actual dunk. I started out on a new journey with a whole new army of support
right behind me. If that isn’t G-d’s love, I don’t know what is.