Graduation weekend!

(photo taken at Carmel Beach - Jan. 2010) 

Well, I have all but reached the end of the road. My family is ready to celebrate and party. I am ready to celebrate and party. I completed and passed all my classes. It was a little frustrating in the beginning of the semester as I was writing my synthesis project and learning about the Psalms. Both were challenging activities. But somehow, I made it to the end. I am standing. 

Life is pretty sweet. This road was at times as smooth as a newly asphalted street and rocky like the dirt trails along Fremont's Mission Peak. The complete feeling of being finished has not hit me yet. Even as I wrapped up the Invocation and Community Blessing for the STM ceremony which I helped coordinate and craft, the shock of finishing my Master's Degree has not hit me. 

The other day a prospective employer commented on my discernment story. They seemed impressed at my ability to jump from daily journalism to full-time ministry. At times, I cannot believe it either.
It crept in my head the other day as I finished the Invocation. I thought about the moment I decided to quit journalism, flee California and pick up where I had left off 14 years ago.

Many people have asked me if I will be going back into daily journalism. The answer I give is that I would love to merge journalism and ministry together to form my ministry of discernment, technology and communication among young adults. So, if you know anyone or someone who knows someone who is hiring please send them my way.

And I will eagerly tell them my story again. Good things come to those who wait. Or better yet discernment may be a long tricky path, but the rewards fill your heart more than you could ever imagine.