the almost graduate

I will be graduating in less than three days. I will be concluding my high school education and moving into a new state, a new city, away from my family and friends, to begin a new phase of my life. This is momentous! Then why do I not feel its weight?

Perhaps it is because I still have two finals and a graduation speech to begin and complete. Or perhaps it is because I am ready. I have prepared myself for this transition for years and years, and now that it is upon me, it is well-rehearsed and familiar to me.

But more than anything else, I am ready to graduate because I know that God will be with me no matter where I live or how old I am or what challenges I face. That much will stay the same, though everything else changes. And I take great comfort in that fact. It will be hard to say goodbye to my hometown and all the dear people who live here, but I can cling to a God who never changes, and whose awesome plans for my life are still the same. That is an exciting thought!