Oh The Places You'll Go

Here I am again, thinking about the future. This time I'm excited about it though. I have one very tough grade 12 year to get through and then I'm FREE!
I was thinking and praying and hoping and searching for what I'm supposed to do when I finish high school. Dreading the question, "what are you going to do after high school?" And e v e r y o n e asks like, are they just making conversation or do they actually care what I do with my life?
Well, regardless I think I have my answer. I'm taking a year off to most likely join the NET team. Basically I realized that this is what I've always wanted to do. To travel while sharing my faith and inspiring others the way I have been inspired. It simply joy! And all the questions of why? how? with what money? what if? what about the future? Are suddenly answered by the simple counter-question of, why not? Hello...this is your future. Money will come, trust God. What if what? What if you don't immediately go to university and people judge you because the world has certain expectations that you're clearly not going to meet. "Sometimes you have to dissapoint others in order to not dissapoint God."
Now it's not to say I'll never go to university. No, just not now.
People always say.."Oh you're young, you've got plenty of time." Uhh actually, the way I see it, time is ticking and I'm ready! I mean, what are these people thinking, encouraging me to wait and wait. What, exactly, am I waiting for? Waiting for someone else to do what I'm meant to do? Umm yeah, no!
Change is not made by people who simply wait for opportunities, they're made by the people who choose to be proactive and create oppotunities. Made by people who finally decide that they simply can't stand it anymore.
These are the people who are no longer 'average' or 'ordinary,' but extraordinary and they're also commonly known as the saints of the church. We're all called to be saints. So riddle me this...WHY can we simply stand to sit still?

THIS MOMENT IS AN OPPORTUNITY.