What Are My Childhood Dreams?

"LAST LECTURE" By Randu Pausch!

The most amazing lecture I have ever heard in my life.

As we are watching this in class, I am just sitting there asking God, "Okay, what am I suppose to get out of this!" See I have seen this lecture a million times. I know exactly where I am suppose to laugh and honestly, I think that I can almost recite the whole speech now. So I started wondering... "What did I miss the first few times I saw it? Why does this keep coming up in my life? What was God trying to tell me, through this speech?"

I didn't really know, but half way through the lecture... Jennifer, which is one of the girls that sit next to me. Who doesn't know me outside of the classroom, tells me, " You know Christina, that's going to be you!" I was just stunned and a little baffled to what my response to her should be. I just looked at her stupidly and knew... God was using Jennifer right there in my life! It was totally the coolest thing to see God working right there in the classroom, without anyone really knowing except me! I wish I had a picture of my face because I know it had to of been priceless!

Well, anyways... I start thank God right then and there. Just really noticing how important I am to my God. How He finds me here in a classroom, on Whitworth University campus, in a city named after a Chief, which half the world can barely say correctly! WOW! That's a lot to take in at one time and still keep a "student-attentive-face" to fool the teacher. **WINK WINK **

Anyways... after that moment... God showed me more. See lately, I have been fighting with God about Who "I think" am in Him and What "God thinks" I am in Him! His image of what I am, is more amazing than my own image of self portrayal. It's amazing and it really brings home the whole idea, that God can't look down on evil.

That's why we are not up there kicking it with God.

So the realization is this, when God sees me... He sees me, as that amazing image that He made me for! So of course, God's image is a lot better than my own.

It's just amazing... and so much to take in such a small amount of time!

Another thing, which I realized today in class. I am a people person. I love making other people smile and feel welcomed. I want to save the world, with one smile at a time. However, God has shown me today. That every moment in my life is a moment where I can learn and show my love for Jesus through myself! It was a great day today and I am really excited about my future.

Anyways... watch the lecture... it's so worth the hour and 16 minutes it takes out of your day! I promise you, it will touch your life so much... that you will watch over and over again! My prayer is that God would find purpose out of my life and guide me, to that purpose He made me for!!!!