The Best Time of My Life

"The best way to live is to appreciate each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Work at your work. Play at your play. Don't try to borrow from your future. Accept that now is the best time of your life."

These days, these hours... no matter how long and hard, truly are the best time of my life. As I again sit in the computer lab, waiting for the final pages of my senior thesis to print, I'm reminded that with all the exciting things coming up... I still have 8 days left in Auburn. 8 days to laugh and cry and play with dear, dear friends.

Although I will be returning to Auburn in August, I'm returning to a completely different world. A world without Outback and Interior Design... two things that have defined me the past 2-4 years. Leaving an identity behind is always difficult. Luckily, I have found a new identity, in Christ. This identity is never-changing and always stays the same... despite the circumstances. This new identity helps leaving the behind the identity of Virginia as design student and Outbacker a much easier transition.

This new found identity leads me down a road that is often difficult and lonely but so far, it's far more rewarding than any other identity, no matter how successful I have been with the others. This identity is perfect... not because I'm prefect by ANY MEANS... but because it's made in the image of Christ. I like this new identity... being the Bride of Jesus... how cool that! THE Jesus is my eternal husband. :) Regardless of the new identities I'll be taking on in the coming years as a fresh, college grad, I think I just might continue to keep the "Bride of Christ" identity as the primary!

"I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back." Philippians 3:12-14 The Message

xoxo, va