Journal #2 - Short Story

Coming into Christianity later in life is awkward. You finally think that you know how life works, only to realize you have no clue what you are doing. 

Going into my senior year of high school I had a plan. I was going to move to California, become a chef, and never come back to the place in which I grew up. Everything was going great, until it wasn’t. I get to my final two semesters of college, one of which is an internship. One thing leads to another and I end up dropping out of school. I started working at a bakery, which I hated, and wondered where I went wrong.

I eventually found God again, and started attending church. This was the same church I had grown up in, but now I actually wanted to be there. I was even deemed a leader. I’m still not sure why they thought that was a good idea. 

But here I am, a leader of like 6 girls, with no clue how church works. Everybody else my age knew scriptures of the top of their head and had solid advice. The only advice I was able to give was what NOT to do. 

Eventually things worked out. But the amount of learning I had to do, in order to be confident in my leadership skills, was insane. And I’m still not done learning. But I am ready to see how God uses this awkward experience in the future.