I like lists, I like plans, and I like knowing what is going on. Flexibility and spontaneity are difficult for me, so I usually have to plan to do them. (Yes, I know that’s ironic and contradictory.) This year, God is training me to be more spontaneous and flexible by making me take a bigger leadership role in the campus ministry that I volunteer in. If you didn’t already know, college students rarely follow anyone else’s schedules, plans, or lists!
Case in point, this weekend we are going to an amazing fall conference for Christian Challenge students from all over Kansas and Nebraska. We had five students sign up to go and three “maybes,” but it turned out that none of the maybes could go. We submitted our numbers on Monday and then added another girl at our Monday night Bible study. Early this afternoon, I received a text message, “Hey if it too late for michael to come this weekend? He didnt sign up.” My first thought was, “Of course it isn’t too late, we want people to come!”
I love getting to know these free-spirited, enthusiastic, options-wide-open younger “siblings” that always become dear to me. It seems that most of the time, God teaches me more from them than they could possibly be learning from me. God keeps me on my toes and challenges me to embrace each unplanned opportunity with a similar enthusiasm!
