My Journey to the end...

As the summer came to an end, I did my ritual summer routine. Took the last week of summer off to round up my life and head back to Cuse'. Well not before doing my summer routine, meeting up with the last few people I hadn't seen all summer and the few I saw all summer just to say farewell. One annual routine of my farewell consists of lunch with Louis "Coco" Carlo, the current associate Pastor at Abounding Grace. He was my last stop before the final farewell and it had become tradition to meet him the day before take off. As tradition follows he would always ask for a recap of the year, the summer and our final farewell would be a few questions to ponder over the year. Every year these questions would be my personal project and every year I would end the spring semester with a well crafted answer, sometimes even more questions.

This year however is significantly important as it is my final year at Cuse' and as life would have it I have no idea where the road will lead me after graduation. As the semester has sprung into fulla action and Senior year has been much busier then expected I lost track of the questions till recently. I found them in the bottom of my purse waiting for me to answer them. Not that I wil know the answers to any of the questions quiet yet, but it jogged my memory of that final conversation.

The conversation that led to an entry in my journal about being lost only a week before my car accident then I realized why that tradition had been so important. Every year it started me into the small steps of finding my way back. These questions I have really make me ponder and hopefully by the time it is time to take the walk away from my Undergraduate career I will have an answer. So I leave you with a few questions that he left with me:

1. What are your top 5 values?

2. Why these and how have they changed?

3. Who informed you of these?

4. What are your non - negotiables in life?

Difficult question I believe so impossible to answer I think not. They just take a year of life to learn the answer.

xoxo Lori