TRAnsition Stages

It's official! I'm a graduate! Ever since I moved the annoying tassels on my cap from the left side to the right I have been singing Alice Cooper's famous "School's out for the summer" with an emphasis on the part, School's out forever! Even though it's only really just beginning! This week has actually been pretty hard for me. I learned something about myself.

I don't like change.

I mean, I'll embrace it when I have to but I definitely don't look forward to it. And man, this week has been a week of change. Probably the biggest in my life.

Just to demonstrate how much I dislike change I'll briefly explain what I have been doing this week. After blowing through about fifty 'Thank You' cards and even suffering from a paper cut on my lip because of my vigorous envelope licking, I didn't have much to do. So, if you know me at all you can probably guess what I did.

I went to school.

Yes I did just graduate, and no I do not have to go to school. This was completely a matter of choice and I have been to school every day this week. Whether it's been to play frisbee, help in third grade, pull a Senior prank, or just hang out, I have been there. The teachers all thought they got rid of me, but they were wrong. I feel a little strange walking the oh-so-familiar halls not as a student but as alumni. Yeah that word just hasn't sunken in yet... Alumni.
I don't like change because it means that I have to give up what I am comfortable with; that I have to step out on a branch, trusting that it won't break. But I guess without change, no one will ever get anywhere.

Here's what I've learned. No matter what changes in my life, God stays the same. He will ALWAYS be there for me and I can find my hope in Him. I know that wherever I go, whoever I meet, and whatever I do, God will be there to guide me, protect me, and change my life for the better.

So maybe, just maybe, change is a blessing, even though it's hard.