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I am graduating from college in less than a month. I never thought in a million years that college would fly by as quickly as it has. But it has been wonderful, and as much as I have senioritis and am ready to graduate, I am not ready to move on yet. I don’t want to move on yet. I love those stately oaks and broad magnolias. I love attending LSU football games where I get covered in coke and I lose my voice. I love taking naps in the quad and eating lunch by Mike’s cage. My 4 years of college have gone by too quickly and I encourage others to not waste it, but savor every moment of it.

Now as for what I am doing after I graduate, that is the question I ponder daily. I do not know yet. I have options, I just can’t seem to make a decision. How do I choose a career for the rest of my life when I’m only 21?! Frankly, I don’t think I can. I think all I can do is make the best decision for me right now and trust God. Ultimately, I believe my career itself doesn’t matter. My worth isn’t in my career or how much money I make or any of that. What truly matters is whether or not I am glorifying God in whatever it is I am doing. And that means working my hardest and to the fullest of my capability. That means sharing the love of Christ with whomever my fellow classmates or coworkers might be. That means leaning on Christ in the good and bad. That means living in a holy, honorable, and truthful way.

So for all of you out there worrying about your major/career take comfort in the fact that not only do I (someone graduating in less that a month) not know what I am doing after a graduate, but that our identity and hope is not found in a career. Instead, Christ is our identity, our rock, our savior. Good luck to those who are worry warts and planners like me. I feel your pain. But trust God, and all will be well.

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” -Matthew 6:26