I Will
Some of you may know I am on staff with a high school leadership camp called LYS, and at LYS, we have a session called Dreams to Reality. In a nutshell, students reflect on their past, present, and future goals and how to overcome obstacles while taking steps toward achieving them. At the end of the session, everyone creates an "I Will" card stating a tangible goal they "will" do along with a time commitment that they will do it by. Over the years, I have created, accomplished, and held onto a number of these "I Will" statements as reminders of where I want to go. One of my "I Will" statements that I wrote in high school reads "I will devote my life to full-time ministry by 2017". At the time, I thought I would go straight into ministry after college, but God had other plans for my first year out. Instead, my first year out of college led me to teaching high school English in a rural, Title I school in South Louisiana with an organi...