Where Am I Going? Who Am I becoming?

Recently, I've found that the main question asked of me by adults is, "Where are you going to college?", or "What are you going to do after high-school?" While I am sure now that these people are well meaning and are simply showing their interest in my life, my first reaction was to become insecure, and start searching for the perfect college like some kind of education obsessed person. Searching like a maniac, I found myself going nowhere. Thankfully, God through the wisdom of my friends and family, showed me that I was being slightly obsessive. Looking back now (not that it was so long ago) I realize that I allowed myself to become so obsessed with what college I am going to, that it became the main focus of my life. I totally lost any sense of a big picture focus.

Tonight as we were talking in small groups, something that one of my leaders said really stuck out to me. God is more concerned about who we are becoming, and the people that we are reaching out to, than he is about our careers or majors in college. (Not that we shouldn't think about those too) It is so easy to be caught up in the minute details of everything, but in doing so we lose the ability to see the meaning and purpose of things. I want my life to be about who and where God wants me to be, rather than about finding the college that will answer the question of the concerned adult.