So, more recently at work I have been going through old files for students who lived on campus. It is pretty interesting. In the old applications, students included pictures of themselves in the application – Oh, how the styles have changed. It is not the most entertaining task I have done, but it is cool to see where people before me have lived.

This really got me thinking about life and how soon, in less than a year, I will be one of those old files that the next receptionist will go through, trash all the old condition reports, put my name on a sheet of paper, and shove it in some file in the store room not to be looked at again for years.

How did the last 4 years of my life fly by so quickly? And even more, what have I done here at CBU that will go on past a file that will soon be replaced with the next freshman girl?

It made me really excited for this next year. I don’t want to just be a mediocre RA again. I don’t want to be just another student in the CBS major that just does enough work to get me an “A.” I don’t want to be just another college friend who was here today and gone tomorrow after graduation. Life is completely and utterly fleeting. Soon, my life will end, and I will be just a speck of dust that the next generation will walk on. Life is interesting that way.

I am still really pondering and brainstorming this idea. But, I need to find my identity solely in Christ since soon life will end and I will know nothing but Him.

How can we live for today to impact tomorrow? How can we make an impact on this time in History? How can our life not just leave with us when we die, but travel past the grave? How do we live in the knowledge that Christ is all we need and our only identity since our lives are fleeting?