Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Man Proposes and God Disposes

So where am I right now? A good question indeed, because I don't really know. Naturally, my body is in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the campus of Calvin College, trying desperately to graduate and leave the womb-like insularity of College for a life of my own, with the woman I love and am currently engaged to be married to. However, God has seen it fit to somehow turn my life upside down, and cause me to wonder exactly what in the world he is trying to do with me. I am currently experiencing a great deal of frustration due to the fact that all of my credits are not falling neatly into place, as well as attempting to figure out a way to graduate this semester and what it is exactly God wants me to do with my life (I thought I used to have this all figured out. Ha-ha, silly me!). It has come to my attention that this cannot happen with a major in East Asian Studies. It may, however, be accomplished by doing a self-designed major, which would basically consist of the credits and classes I have completed up until now. This is not so bad. After all, possible places of employment do not look at what kind of a major you have graduated with, they look at the fact that you actually have a piece of paper that says you have jumped through the hoops society has told you must jump through, as well as looking at whatever meager skills one may have acquired by the four-year circus that is College.
Of course I believe in expanding and developing the mind and the pursuit of higher knowledge, but there must be a better (and cheaper) way of achieving greater degrees of knowledge. Ironically enough, I think I will probably enjoy all of my classes this semester. My teachers seem to be actual human beings (instead of what most professors asssume, which is that they are the font of all knowledge), and actually personable, approachable human beings at that. I wonder if God is enjoying a wry smile at this paradox of frustration and enjoyment that I am experiencing right now.