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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: DECISION
Setting my timer for five minutes and . . . GO.
It’s that time of the year again when many high school and college graduates are trying to figure out what to do after graduation. It wasn’t too long ago that we wrote on the prompt, UNDECIDED, and I shared the phase we were in with my youngest son trying to make a decision about next steps after high school.
Now he’s about to finish up his first year at his dream university on a full scholarship (praise the LORD) AND my daughter is about to graduate a year early from her college with a double major, also on a full scholarship (praise the Lord again and again)!
Now she’s trying to weigh her options for the long stretch of days after graduation, and she shared with me recently, “I feel like there are too many options.” She could do (almost) anything. She could go (almost) anywhere. The world is her canvas.
It is a beautiful, unique, rare, perhaps somewhat daunting phase of life, and I’m privileged to bear witness to it.
One thing I do know: When we walk with the Lord, no decision we make can be out of His control. Even in our fumblings and stumblings, He can use each firm step and each false step for our good and His glory, and His perfect plan always prevails.
STOP.
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Speaking of making decisions . . . Which one would you choose?
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What a beautiful place to be—full of possibilities, and yet a little overwhelming at the same time.
I smiled at “too many options,” because that can feel just as heavy as having too few.
I love how you point back to trust. That even in all the choosing, it’s not really about getting it perfectly right, but about walking with the Lord in it.
There’s so much freedom in that.
What an exciting (and a bit scary) time for your family. I look forward to reading more of your children’s stories as time goes by.
Thank you, Barb!