are we disguising ourselves?
It’s already mid-February, y’all! How did this happen? It seems to me only a few days ago I was wishing everyone a happy new year. As a senior, this is especially frightening because I know that my time left at Westminster is limited. Essentially three more months here and then I will graduate! What a scary, yet thrilling, realization this is for me, as well as for my classmates. I love hearing about acceptances and final college decisions of where my friends are going to spend the “best years of their lives”. However, this is such a scary time because we all know, an acceptance letter or rejection letter could alter the course of what we had planned for our lives. Knowing that your acceptance is in the hands of an admissions person who has read the same application with the same generic answers over and over again does not offer much solace. If your transcript does not have the numbers any given college or university is looking for in SAT/ACT scores, GPA, etc., in most cases, your application is tossed to the side. As I think about my fellow seniors, I cannot help but wonder what the deciding factor of a rejection letter was. Was it the B she received as her year average in biology freshman year because of the tree project she procrastinated? Was it the lack of numerous extra-curriculars because he decided to focus on school instead of playing soccer? On all college applications, you try to make yourself look as good as possible. You want the college to know that you’re a pretty cool kid, you’re determined, and you work hard. You try to put your best foot forward, or as I learned in Mrs. Franklin’s tenth grade Honors World Literature class, “better foot forward” is the grammatically correct way of the saying…but who is paying attention to stuff like grammar anyways? ;)
As this school year begins its second semester and senior year begins its ending, I can’t help but ask myself if I’m putting my better foot forward for God. Unfortunately, the answer is that I am not. I am close to allowing the infamous and universal condition of senioritis to overcome me (I have heard many of my classmates say that they have been suffering from this condition since freshman year). I am half-trusting Him and half-living the way He commands. I have become complacent with halfway doing everything, and the Lord warns us against becoming apathetic which is the scary thing. He knows I am being tempted to just quit because the end is so close, but so far away! This might seem like a silly analogy, but applying to colleges and trying to make myself look as good as possible is like trying to appeal to God in the best way possible; the only difference is that God knows my heart. He can see what colleges cannot. I urge y’all to not only appear to love Him with all of our hearts, but to really open our minds and our hearts to His love and to a life pleasing to Him. We must not shallowly, on our surface, be like God but rather, we should be like Him in our hearts as well.
Haley Meeks
February 16th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Vey nice, rememver never to give up and draw strenght form the Lord
February 17th, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Thank you for redirecting our thoughts and actions back to God. He always knows our heart and He has plans for us even when we aren’t sure what they may be.