Snakes

ahhhh.... its my senior year of college, its my last semester of college (God Willing), its a monumental moment. right? well of course! i finally get to get out of here. college has been one of those things that has been great for me and one of those things that has kept me caged in like a rabid animal. well this rabid animal is about to break loose and hold onto your hats! i know I'm young, immature, naive.... the list goes on but isn't that the beauty of it all. as much as i would like to i know that i will not save the world from poverty, disease, hunger.... but i will storm the field with knowledge that i have and take on what ever God puts in front of me. i was at a conference this last weekend and at one of the break out sessions a lady who wrote a book called "into the mud" which i am ready, told a story about her husband killing a snake. it was a dangerous snake 10% of the people who get bit by this kind of snake die others only lose limbs. in the region that they were in there were several other snakes that were very dangerous and very deadly and if bitten you will most certainly die. she went on to make several points about living in another culture and what not. it wasn't till the end that i really understood the reasoning for her story. she said that there will always be bigger more dangerous and deadly snakes and as for her husband and snakes...he was not confronted with those snakes only the one that came his way. her point was that along the way there will be many things like hunger poverty....that you may not be dealing with but that does not mean that what you are doing is not important. we need to deal with the issues that God puts in front of us! i think its a beautiful thought. i know that i will make mistakes, don't we all? i also know that i will make mistakes because i am young, naive, immature.... but in those mistakes will be strength. strength from the Lord and strength in the correction and knowledge that comes from my mistakes. like i said i think its beautiful to not be tainted by the worlds downfalls and misfortunes and mistakes. i think its beautiful to see young people caring for the world around them. although some put them down for being naive and thinking they can save the world but... its in them that life springs that new and fresh ideas are sparked and fire is given birth to the other blades of grass around them and eventually you have a wild fire out of control infecting the world like venom!

i guess my point is that i plan to take this path that i am on until the next fork in the road i will take on the snakes that slither across the path. its my last semester of my senior year in college and i can not be more excited about the life ahead of me the life that God is directing me!