Needless to say, ringing the bell shows the epitome of undergrad accomplishment. While it enables students to show off their achievement, it also boosts Agnes' statistics and their ability to brag to prospective students about the high quality of the education students receive. Now don't get me wrong, you do receive a GREAT education, and the experience is worth every penny of it!
But recently, God has been wrecking all my plans. Before coming on this trip, I had it all planned out: graduate with my BA in psychology, go on to graduate school to get my PsyD in Clinical Psych, and then work in some capacity with women and children who were victims of trauma. While I still want to work with trauma victims, God has exploded my heart with desires to do so much! I want to work with women trapped in the sex industry, I want to change the public school system and serve underprivileged and impoverished kids to give them a fighting chance, I want to do missions…..the desires just wont quit coming! So, needless to say, I have been in a state of confusion about what I am doing after college.
Last night, God gave me some serious clarity. My team watched the live broadcast of the Multiply Movement with Francis Chan and David Platt, and boy did God speak. I really encourage EVERYONE to watch this and let it impact you. The archived video can be found here: http://multiplymovement.com/sanfrancisco . For those who can't watch the broadcast at this very moment, the drive home message of it all is that EVERY believer is called to make disciples, and when disciples make disciples, God's word EXPLODES. After Francis Chan spoke, they had a fifteen minute sort of "break" where they asked you to think about: "What's one specific way I sense God speaking to me tonight?"
One way? You mean I can't just take an incredible amount of notes and call it a day? I actually have to process?
Well, luckily God is amazing and really hit my heart without delay. And what he showed me is that I'm called to give up my grad school plans. I am called to live poor (and boy do we Americans have NO idea of what living poor really means), I'm called to reach the youth in inner cities and then abroad to all the nations, and that I am called to take things as they come. That means no more five year plans. I am to completely trust in God, walking forward in faith and knowing he will lead me.
And you know what? I am not scared. I am not anxious. Super organized and prepared, must always know what's going on ahead of time Brittany is LIBERATED. I am EXCITED about this adventure. I am excited to live like the early church and Jesus himself did! I am excited to boldly share God's word and to genuinely pour out my life to make disciples for his kingdom, EVERYWHERE I go. This isn't something that can wait any long. People are DYING without knowing God's love, Christ's sacrifice, and our salvation in him. And that is not okay. I am ready to live this adventure each and every day of my life, no longer settling for the "middle class consumer complacency" that is so prevalent in our churches today.
So sorry Agnes, but I most likely WONT be ringing the bell. I WONT be adding to your grad school success stories or big name corporation hirees.
I am doing something so much greater, with someone who has so much more glory and fame.
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