As a part of our spiritual gifts study, which I talked about in my last post, we also examined our passions and personal styles. From this, I learned that I have a passion for people, but within structured, defined relationships. Now all of these things about myself are things that I have become more and more aware of over the past few years, and my growing realization of who I am as an individual led me to suddenly decide on a major a couple of months ago.
Cascade only offers 12 or so majors, so I didn't have a lot of options to begin with, but as I looked at that list of majors, I knew that I wanted to pursue a degree in psychology, with a possible minor in biblical studies. From there, I want to complete the graduate work necessary to become a Christian counselor. I actually decided all of this out loud, in a conversation with my dad, and he immediately agreed that these subjects seemed perfect for me.
As I think about it more and more, pursuing biblical counseling is not even training for a job in my mind. It is actually more like completing who I am meant to be, or in other words, pursuing my telos. Of course I know that statistically I am expected to change my major three or four times, at the very least, but after prayer and pondering and confirmation of friends and family, I feel certain that this is what God is calling me to pursue.
I have to stop here for now, because even as God is calling me to pursue biblical counseling, my mother is calling me to clean my room and the sewing room, which I must admit, is a bit of a disaster after my hasty dressmaking of late.
3 comments:
Congratulations on choosing a major! And I for one (and my husband for another and my father for a third, if you need more) am living proof that you do not need to change your major, even once, during your course of study at university. So go ahead, defy statistics, and do what you are called to do.
Hooray for deciding on a major -- that's gotta be a relief. And I think that you have the potential to be an amazing counselor.
I don't know Cascade's take on psychology, but I do know that often times psychology and Biblical Counseling are miles apart, both in premises and conclusions. So, I guess I just want to caution you to use discernment and use your love for and knowledge of truth as you pursue this.
It'd be a lot of work, but yeah, you know more than me, so I just wish you luck.
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