College and Career

Plans

Add sections for Work/Career (Plans, God is for you, wisdom, chasing His joy)

Free of fear.

College

college (preparing, people are more important, the experience, recreating yourself, discovering gifts, figuring out assignments) Disciplines: Prayer, BS, Worship, Fellowship, Service - In context of local church. Local church: but recognize that college makes that weird. Join campus groups. Lead and serve. People Matter Most. Invest in them. Friends - support, growth, networking. Professors. School/class/homework is not the highest priority. Make plans, work those plans, evolve those plans. Choose your friends. You can recreate yourself. – I think that’s 90% of what you’re feeling that feels like loneliness. Not so much that you don’t have a pile of close friends already, but you’re feeling the impact of all of your relationships with people back here behind suddenly and irreversibly changed. It’s different than missing us. You miss people when you go on a trip. You’re not on a trip. You’ve left home in a way that means that home isn’t home anymore, you’re building a new home. You’re growing and changing and this old home won’t ever feel the same to you and you won’t fit in it the same way when you come back. And you know it and you feel it and it hurts. Your parents feel it too - I mean there’s a bunch of other crap in there too, but the healthy part of it is that pain. And it is a healthy pain, mourning the changes in all of those relationships. Relationships are the thing, the most important thing, the reason God is Trinity and the reason He made us, the reason He made woman. Jesus and I have gone on several walks this summer before and after you left mourning the change in you and my relationship. But it’s good. I’m fully excited for you, confident in you and proud of you. Home is going to be a nebulous thing for a while. It’s not back here for you. And it’s not there either. You’re going to have to make it and carry it around with you. Make home people, not a place or a thing. Make God home.

Career

Choosing. Money.

Money

Budgeting. Borrowing. Tithing. God makes you to prosper. Providing for family. Being mastered by money. Make friends with unrighteous mammon.