Why College Students Have an Incredible Advantage
Sharon Hodde Miller, a friend and prolific writer, shares some practical insight as to why college students have a particular advantage. On her blog, Sheworships.com, she writes about “The Insanity of College Students.”
She asks some great questions:
What if college students used their unique freedom, flexible schedule and unbelievable energy to bless the world? While churches assume that college students can’t give much in the way of finances, they possess something equally valuable: time. So use it well and ask yourself, “What kind of stories will I be telling my kids?” Will you be telling them about the time you ate a live fish on a bet, or the time you pulled an all-nighter doing laundry for a family who needed the love of Christ?
There are advantages to each chapter of our lives. Most times it seems we fail to grasp the opportunities of where we are, while still having time to take them. The norm is to see things in the rear view. If college students and young adults could fully comprehend and utilize this advantage now, I wonder what big things might happen? What ideas might be dreamed? How many people might be rescued from desperation?
Sharon writes:
But what’s sad about these stories is that as funny and crazy as they are, they’re ultimately a waste of an incredible gift…..
How many college students do crazy things and make amazing memories going on a spontaneous road trip, driving to Krispy Kreme in the middle of the night, or playing hide-and-go-seek in Walmart?
She asks:
Yes, those are fun stories, but do you really want that to be your legacy? Is THAT what you want to define your Christian journey in college?
Are you using your gift? Your advantage? What will define the next year of your life?
What stories do you need to live out now so that you can tell your kids later?
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