Today I realized that I am in just the right place. I mean, being at Campbell Divinity School at this time is the right place for me. It wasn't the person (can I say nosey student) who questioned my being late to class that did it. It wasn't the friend that loaned me her class notes, or the lecture series on preaching.
I realized today something that God has been trying to show me for sometime. I am surrounded by a select group of people that do not judge me for being myself. I often have different ideas on things such as how we get to heaven, or who is saved, or just what heaven will look like. As I talked with a friend after class today, we talked about how I am different and there is nothing wrong with that. She said some things about my thoughts and how she could see where I am coming from. In no way did she tell me I was wrong or did I feel that she was judging me.
Now granted, there are many people at Campbell who do not agree with me. There are those that are way more conservative that me. There are those who are more towards the liberal side than I am. However, I liked the words that were used to describe me tonight. I am seen as being confident in my ideas and in myself. I am also seen as being a non-conformist.
This may come as a surprise to you..but ladies and gentlemen, I don't conform to the crowd. I like to listen to all sides and form my own opinions and ideas about things.
I'll admit that I was excited to hear these things and why these things fascinated this person about me. As I go on being a non-conformist and confident, I am only more excited to see just what the future holds. And, I'm not kidding.
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Found this and thought about you...
"Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too." ~Will Rogers
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