La Vida?

Why is that you don’t seem to realize how much you’ve been going, going, going until you’ve actually just stopped? Well, I being a little energizer bunny lately, just recently found myself stopping and relaxing for a small time. It all then hit me at once, how much I’ve been running around (both physically and mentally) and how tired I was. My conclusion? I’m ready for a break (July can’t come any sooner). What makes it hard is feeling like I can’t afford a break, literally.

An opportunity was presented before me just the other day. Gordon College has this program called La Vida – an outdoor expedition. It’s a 12 day camping trip filled with hiking/backpacking, canoeing/kayaking, and rope courses – and this girl REALLY wants to go.

The trip is June 22nd till July 3rd. Oh yes. It will be that soon. It couldn’t have come at a better time. The trip feels very convenient, yet at the same time very inconvenient. It would be an amazing trip where I can start to create some friendships (it would be nice to start college already knowing some students who I may have possibly bonded rather incredibly with), knock out a required core credit, gain a great experience, and honestly, yes, get away for a bit (I am flawed). However, it will interrupt this college registration process of sending in forms and stuff (which I could get most of it possibly completed, God-willingly, within this upcoming week, God-willingly). And of course, like most things, it will cost money. This lovely experience will cost me the ripe price of a deposit, airfare, and clothes (because I can’t wear anything cotton on this trip and that pretty much makes up my wardrobe).

As I’ve been going over this stuff in my mind and wondering about money and what to do, I was brought to a verse:

Philippians 3: 12-14 – “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus too hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

Okay, I don’t want to be one to take something out of context, so if I am, please give me a cyberspace slap in the face (I like that that rhymed). But after reading Philippians 3:12-14, I feel like it applies to what I am currently writing about – especially in terms of straining towards what is ahead.

This process is interesting, I’ll give it that. God is definitely doing something in me and is at work here in my life. Learning to make choices is something I believe He is taking me through. Not only that, but I’m learning to make choices and accept the consequences of that decision, whether good or bad (can there be such a thing as a good consequence? It feels like an oxymoron).

Go to La Vida? Or don't go to La Vida? That is the question.....