A Surrendered Summer

Well, today I finished my summer job, and it's so bittersweet. It has not seemed like a job at all to me, because when I think of a job I think of HAVING to go to work and doing stuff. To me, this summer I got to put my passion into use. I got to meet lots of college freshman and get to know them. I got to work with some amazing ministers and meet some people that I truly look up to and respect, whom I hope to work with in the future. When I was in the office I got to talk through facebook and email to even more freshman- it was amazing.
I've been pondering the summer and trying to figure out how God has planned it all out. Obviously I don't know what will come from it in the future, but I can tell you what God has taught me. I think one word could describe what God's taught me this summer: SURRENDER
Looking back over my journals, it seems to be a continuous theme. This summer God has called me to surrender. Surrender my plans, or ruin me if you will :) Surrender my ideas of what is best for me. Surrender my standards. Surrender who I am trying to become so that God can mold me into who He wants me to become.
I'm so glad I know what the next year holds, and I am so looking forward to serving as Campus Missionary. But, in the back of my mind are the questions of what's after that. Grad School? Ministry position? Missionary? Marriage? They are all questions I have no answer to, and at this time God has given me a peace about it. I've surrendered it to Him, and pray He will continue to just show me the one piece at a time that I need. Hopefully my puzzle will start to make some sense soon!


All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In His presence daily live.
I surrender all, I surrender all,
All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender ALL!