My Resolve

Well folks, the big day came and passed. I graduated from high school! Since my last day of school on Friday  until now - the day after graduation - I have been trying so hard to not only put words to my emotions and thoughts about this huge and inevitable turning of a page in my life, but actually find emotions & thoughts about it that would make sense to those who ask "soooo, how are you feeling about right now?" Haha.
So far I haven't come up with anything "profound" and "not-cliche" to say on what graduating feels like.

This morning I woke up and realized why: what this part of my life means to me isn't really about "getting out of high school," "celebrating all I accomplished," or even "moving onto something 'bigger' and 'better,'" nor is it about finally facing "the REAL world."

This event actually sooo comes down to being all about One thing, One person, and One love. . . .

I am out of high school now, and I have this serious revelation... this huge resolve... that I have the rest of my life to live. And in this life, there is only one thing that matters to me -- only this one thing. That One thing, One person, is Jesus.

No matter how overly-poetic this might sound, I am truthfully saying that after all my searching for thought and emotion, I cannot do anything right now but say how much I love God! .....

I am outrageously, unfathomably lost inside inside His love, and in turn, I can't help but just LOVE Him with all of my heart, with every fiber in my being. He is everything I live for and will live for until the day I die. Words cannot express this love, this passion burning inside of me; this passion to know Him more, this passion to just be with Him, this passion to love other people with His love, this passion to sit face to face with Him, this passion to live above what the natural says is possible and instead live only by what God says is possible and see Heaven here on earth! ...This passion to feel His every beautiful heartbeat, so that myself and, in turn, everyone I touch will be transformed into a testimony of the most wonderful, beautiful love in the entire universe: the one and only Love of God!


Right now, I am indeed a high school graduate. But even more so, I am a living, walking, talking, breathing testimony of the love of God. 

No matter what happens in my future, my comfort, hope, and peace is found in this amazing truth: I have given God my heart. He has my whole life. He has my everything, He is my everything, because everything He is.... I have realized.... is more valuable than anything else I have found out there. He is literally "out of this world." He is worth it. He is worth my life. He is worth my everything.

So here's to being alive
Here's to being lost inside of love, and in turn...
Here's to being found by love
Here's to the power of love
Here's to the One who is Love
Who is Jesus - You have my whole heart, my whole love, my whole life!