Ask a ten year-old if five years seems like a long time and most likely you'd get an answer saying it would take forever for that amount of time to elapse. Indeed, back in elementary school I never imagined I'd be 17 years old and a junior in high school. But strangely enough it happened, and even as I tap the letters on the keyboard I am on the verge of becoming a senior. When (and if) 2013 arrives, what will my life be like? Perhaps it will look something like this:
Nearly four years of college will be behind me and I'll be getting ready to graduate with some sort of a Balchelor's degree. Maybe I'll have gained my education in the recently resurrected Weimar College or maybe I'll be packing up my dorm room at Andrews University. By that time I'll have had a bit more practice producing videos and hopefully I'll have put my backpacking equipment to good use. I'll be looking for a job related to my college degree (maybe a high school Chemistry teacher) so that I can start earning money to take flying lessons.
My formal education will be almost behind me and I'll be getting ready to launch off into the work of mission aviation somewhere in the jungles of someplace. My writing will have further matured through college and my portfolio will have a good amount of published articles in it. Eventually I will be starting up a column in a mission magazine that chronicles my mission pilot experiences.
Maybe at that time I'll start thinking of getting a driver's license. Since I was living at home while attending W.C., insurance just wasn't worth it and my bicycle sufficed for everything except town trips. But the airport is an hour bike ride away, so a car would come in handy. These are some of the possibilities and only the Lord knows what will transpire in the next five years. We may not be here that long. Or we may. One thing is certain; time is relentless.
The individual hardships and joys of days gone past are forgotten as a person grows older. And just as I never imagined I would someday be a high school student, it's hard to imagine that the Lord's coming will really happen. But it will. And even the seemingly long years of a lifetime will fade into insignificance when that small black cloud the size of a man's fist appears on the horizon. Only the blink of an eye separates today from eternity.
28) Prelude > Finale…
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2 comments:
Ahahaha, Chemistry teacher? That was my idea! Who knows, maybe you will become one yet! Sounds like you have your future well thought out. . .and that last sentence is very deep. Thanks for letting me use it as my email signature! Hey, ever thought about writing a book?
Woah. That was good. You seem to have a nice future to look forward to! You're such a good writer!
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