Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts

Saturday, January 14, 2017

College Diploma!

Yesterday was a happy mail day. :)

9 1/2 years ago, I started my journey towards my Bachelor's Degree (technically 10 1/2 because I was taking some college courses online my senior year of high-school). For 5 of those years, I wasn't in school.

In that time, I lived a lot of life though, becoming a mother to my daughter of Heaven, gaining passions and a calling.

I never wanted to just go to college because it was what everyone else was doing or what was expected for someone my age. I went back because it was truly where I felt God leading me.

Holding my Diploma in my hands late last night, I felt a huge sense of accomplishment. I'm proud that after all these years, I went back and after many hours of work, now I'm finished.

I have my B.S. in Psychology with a Specialization in Crisis Counseling and a Minor in Christian Counseling. It seems like just yesterday I was deciding to go back to school. Time has a funny way of flying on you.

When I was first starting back classes in the Fall of 2013, I remember seeing my friend's Diploma from Liberty (who actually got the same Degree) and I was thinking that it seemed like a long way off. I imagined what it would be like to hold the same Diploma with my own name on it. And now here we are, wow! I want to frame it.

I'm thankful especially for the support of my parents.

And I'd like to think my little girl would be proud of me. ðŸŽ“  ❤️  #GreatisHisFaithfulness #LibertyUniversity #LibertyAlumni



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Butterfly Shirt for Lily's Birthday

My sweet friend Sandra gave me a gift card to my favorite restaurant/store (Cracker Barrel) for a graduation gift. I got this pretty flowy shirt with butterflies and flowers all over it, specifically to wear on Lily's birthday in March... but it's so cute I know I'll wear it many times before then too, including this week when we had a 70 degree day. ðŸ˜Š ðŸ’•☀️ 


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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

She'll never graduate

My "little" cousin, Anna, graduated from high-school last week. And just like that, another wave of grief washed over me...

My sweet girl will never graduate.

Not from pre-school. Not from kindergarden. Not from elementary school. Not from middle school. Not from high-school. Not from college.

Not from anything.

Yet another realization of another moment I will never experience with my first-born.

It feels as if my cousin was just a little girl herself. The time truly flies by so fast. Before I know it, the time will come when Lily would be graduating high-school. And I will think of her then and wonder who she would have become as an 18-year-old. Lovely, I'm sure. But, I will never see her walk across a stage to receive her diploma. I will never see her chase her dreams. I will never see her discover all God has for her life and future.

Oh, but I know He still has so much planned for her LIFE and LEGACY and it is unfolding now and will continue to unfold forever. Her body may be in the ground, but the beauty of her story will never die. For the very Author-of-life is the One breathing life into the story.

It is going to be so strange and so hard to see other children around Lily's age grow up and experience milestones such as this. And know that my daughter will always remain my baby girl.


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