After 23 years, my mother and father had their last child exit the public school system. That's alot of papers, projects, tests, and homework not to mention for 5 different children! So mom and dad congratz on YOUR graduation! You got us all through it!

Undergrad - IT IS FINISHED!

Wednesday May 9^th at about 4:00pm I will walk across a stage at Thompson Boiling Arena and receive my Bachelors of Science in Education. It is crazy to think that after that point I will no longer be a student of the University of Tennessee but rather of the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine. I still feel way too young to be starting medical school in August! But rather than look forward to that rather large mountain ahead of me, I want to take a moment to remember what God has done to get me here.

I recently looked back through my school calendar to what I was doing in January.  There was soccer practices, tests, and the usual. Then I read where I had my interview for VCOM. It is so crazy to me to think that in just these last few months God gave me an interview for medical school and an offer! And how life has changed since then! From then on I began really seeking the Lord and asking that He would prepare me, because I knew I was by no means ready!

The journey He took me on this semester has been different than ever before. He has been showing me how to give Him everything. How to legitimately BE a living sacrifice. And let me tell you it has been a hard journey! But praise be to God I think I might be a little closer to where He wants me to be! It has been a lonely few months. I have poured myself out and been forgotten by many. And though at first my flesh screams out not wanting to be forgotten, God has gently reminded me why I do what I do. For example, Wednesday afternoon when I walk across that stage, many of the people I thought for sure would want to celebrate that day with me will not be there. At first I wanted to be really mad and wondered how they could forget or how it wasn’t that important to them. But God reminded me that I did not go to college for them, I didn’t go for me, or even to get this degree. I went to college for Him and Him alone. So glory be to God alone, I am graduating not for my glory but all for His!

By no means have I learned all these lessons, but I am one step closer. I want to be totally and completely devoted only to God. I want to pour myself out 110% for Him and only for His glory! I want to leave my pride out of it. My prayer now is that God would grant me humility, that my whole heart would be His alone!

So here is to ending my undergraduate career and starting something amazing that only God knows what it is! I am just so thankful that He will prepare me and use me for His glory!