Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Dear Jordan Barnes...


Sen12rs (that doesn’t really work)

If you were wondering, and even if you weren’t senior year has been great. If you asked me 10 years ago what I wanted my senior year to look like, I would have described something fairly similar to what has happened thus far. Well first, my classes are easy.  Second, for the most part, my friends are awesome. I think it hit all of us that the drama isn’t worth it and we have all been having a blast. I also was on homecoming court, which was such an honor at such a large high school like Fairfield.
Maybe you caught the part where I wrote, ‘if you were to ask me 10 years ago what I wanted my senior year to look like…’ Maybe you also noticed I didn’t write, ‘I can’t imagine anything going any better, perfect is the only way to explain it…’ That is because I could imagine a lot going better…but you know what? That’s all right...Because I have a God who is way bigger than all of choices I have made, and all of the choices I will make. I can’t think of better news than that really.
I really don’t have a lot to write here. Except that I have made a lot of mistakes this year so far, and I will continue to make mistakes, everyday, for the rest of my life. And so will you.  But we serve a living God. And that is some seriously glorious news. So NO MATTER what you’re going through, persevere…he is sovereign and always at work. I really just wrote that whole blog entry to myself, because lately, I forget that every single day. But once again, I am covered, praise Jesus for that. Seriously, praise Jesus.

  You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:6-8