Now, at the supposed crossroads of life, one often stops to ponder as I do - what does the road of non-school life look like now that academia ceases? How about work, relationships, health, plans for the future? All these are definitely unknown as of now. It just seems like a fog from where I am standing at the 20-something year old step of my life road. All I know is that one has to choose the right perspective to take the next step and the next and whatever other steps life entails. That perspective can only come from God and what other demand that He requires except that one takes up his own cross and follows Christ (Luke 14:26-33). There is none. Therefore, I pray the same prayer as Betty Stam, inscribed in her bible and found after she and her husband John Stam were killed in China while serving as missionaries in 1934:
Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all, utterly to Thee to be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt, send me where Thou wilt, work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever.
