What's Your Plan
I think the hardest part about college and going into college is often the volume of people who ask you "what's your plan?" or "what do you want to do when you graduate?" Even in the early stages, the question, "what do you want to major in?" probably causes a young high school graduate's blood pressure to rise to significant levels!
I know deciding what I wanted to do was really difficult and really stressful for me. I either had so many different things that I wanted to be that I could never settle on one major or I didn't want to do anything and would rather go get a cardboard box and live in that just so I wouldn't have to make decisions! (I'm extremely indecisive, you guys) I changed my major to everything from psychology to physical therapy to music to business and then I finally landed on communications with a minor in psychology. I took over 2 years to actually come to a decision that I could stick with!
All that to say, I stressed a lot about a decision that was important. But in the grand scheme of things, I believe that I could have just declared a major and God could have still used me in whatever I did decide. I know for certain that I probably would not have survived as a physical therapy major or a business major because I'm honestly terrible at math and I would have changed my major anyway.
The real decision was between psychology and communications. I love psychology and I could spend hours talking about it and exploring different theories but I wanted something better for the job market. So I landed on communications because God called me into campus ministry and the organization I wanted to work through requires a bachelors degree. And a large fraction of the current staff either majored in communications or psychology.
Honestly, the decision didn't matter because I know what I want to do. In either degree I would have learned valuable things to take with me into ministry. I just wish I didn't stress so much about what major to declare.
Matthew 6:25-27 says "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet you heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value that they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?"
I think that the worry alone and the stress that I put on myself to declare a major actually put an expectation on me that nobody else was really trying to put on me. There were times that I drove myself to anxiety and depression and wanted to quit everything. If only I had remembered to trust that God was going to guide me! in fact the Bible even says "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding." (Proverbs 3:5)
I have learned both from the Bible and from experience that God doesn't let us down and it's so much easier when we trust God with every circumstance. I'm not saying you shouldn't make plans. It's always smart to have a plan and a backup plan but sometimes God's plans are not always our plans and plans don't always go as planned!
I know deciding what I wanted to do was really difficult and really stressful for me. I either had so many different things that I wanted to be that I could never settle on one major or I didn't want to do anything and would rather go get a cardboard box and live in that just so I wouldn't have to make decisions! (I'm extremely indecisive, you guys) I changed my major to everything from psychology to physical therapy to music to business and then I finally landed on communications with a minor in psychology. I took over 2 years to actually come to a decision that I could stick with!
All that to say, I stressed a lot about a decision that was important. But in the grand scheme of things, I believe that I could have just declared a major and God could have still used me in whatever I did decide. I know for certain that I probably would not have survived as a physical therapy major or a business major because I'm honestly terrible at math and I would have changed my major anyway.
The real decision was between psychology and communications. I love psychology and I could spend hours talking about it and exploring different theories but I wanted something better for the job market. So I landed on communications because God called me into campus ministry and the organization I wanted to work through requires a bachelors degree. And a large fraction of the current staff either majored in communications or psychology.
Honestly, the decision didn't matter because I know what I want to do. In either degree I would have learned valuable things to take with me into ministry. I just wish I didn't stress so much about what major to declare.
Matthew 6:25-27 says "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet you heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value that they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?"
I think that the worry alone and the stress that I put on myself to declare a major actually put an expectation on me that nobody else was really trying to put on me. There were times that I drove myself to anxiety and depression and wanted to quit everything. If only I had remembered to trust that God was going to guide me! in fact the Bible even says "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding." (Proverbs 3:5)
I have learned both from the Bible and from experience that God doesn't let us down and it's so much easier when we trust God with every circumstance. I'm not saying you shouldn't make plans. It's always smart to have a plan and a backup plan but sometimes God's plans are not always our plans and plans don't always go as planned!
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