In the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus. You can have all this world, just give me Jesus. It's funny how sometimes we can get so caught up in our day to day lives and forget the simplest thing. Looking back over the past couple of years in my life, so much has changed. At this time two years ago, my life was on a completely different path. I was totally in control of everything-only I knew what was best.

Well, I was wrong. Very wrong. I was going to go to my prized school, get a mountain of debt, and then go about my life...utterly alone. That was my problem. I tried so hard to control my life and do what everybody else wanted for me; including what I thought was best. I could never figure out why the joy I saw in others wasn't something I shared. I tried to build myself up with accomplishments and material things like in the most stereotypical cliché stories, but to no avail. It took me a long time to realize that the material things can come and go, the schools can change, the goals in life can shift-but one thing can always remain the same. There's always one goal which will remain steadfast; always the One who will never leave me and be there with open arms whenever I stumble and fall only to go crawling back to Him. That is Christ Jesus-everything in this world can fade away and leave me with nothing according to this world, but in Him, I have everything.