All There

School has begun! Change is sometimes a hard thing, I'll admit that it was difficult for me to let such an amazing, life changing, exciting, wonderful summer go! Looking back over the memories, I truly feel blessed. While change is hard, it's almost always a good thing. A new chapter of this thriller story called life. So with the new semester in my view I have several choices to make. What will I make of it, what will I let it make of me? After spending a month in Africa this summer it's easy to compare what I'm doing now and view it as trivial, unimportant, certainly not as glorious. I'm so excited about the ministry opportunities God has given me for the next couple of months and can't wait to see what he has in store, yet school seems daunting at times. It's tempting for me to not want to care about it.. to just "make it through" and get it done. But then I think about it and I realize that THIS is what has been given to do. At this moment, for this time, this season, this is my ministry my chance to serve Christ in ALL I do. My parents have always told us to "Do your best" and sometimes I cant get that to stop echoing in my head. Just getting it done is not my best. Too many are satisfied to 'just get by' when we're called to do each task whole heartily- as unto God. I may seem small right now, a class, a paper, an assignment, but those who are faithful in little are faithful in much. I'm finding I can't get there all alone. I need accountability to push me through and I'm so thankful for the ones holding me to it! Most of the time its the small things in life that show our true character and how hard we're willing to work for something. It's not about going through the motions. One of my favorite quotes is by a man named Jim Elliot who said, "Where ever you are, be all there". So obvious, yet I'm challenged by it's simplicity.