When I was a freshman in college everything about me was fake. I had fake friends, fake ambitions, fake goals. I blame some of this on the fact that I was in college. College is an easy place to be fake. You chase after things you don't really care about. You study subjects that you don't really care about. You work a job that you don't really care about. Get the picture? It's easy to be fake in college. Things didn't become real to me until later in my college career. Half way through my freshman year I decided to follow Jesus Christ to wherever he would lead me. For the first time things were real! I began to study something that I cared about. I developed relationships that I cared about. I got involved with a community that I cared about. Things became "real" to me.
The Lord has a interesting way of speaking to your heart in ways that you can easily relate to. For me he spoke to me through The Matrix. Fitting based on the title of this blog as well as this post. After I had decided to take on this insane pledge to follow Jesus "wherever he would lead me" I remembered Morpheus peeking over the "young" Neo, and whispering, "Welcome to the Real World." I felt as if my mentor has said the same thing to me. That sentence implies that your finally free of the bondage of the slave world. It means the start of something new. The blinders have been removed and its time to unlock your true potential in this new "real world."
So now two years later, I am still following Jesus wherever he leads me, and right now he has lead me here. Here is my College Campus at Northern Arizona University. This place that I call home, and my school, is also my "Matrix" where I'm called to be a missionary. I started this blog to share stories about my life before and after my acknowledgment of my Savior. To help students relate to the character of God in ways that are unexpected like through The Matrix. To be "real" with people. To not be fake like the community I served for so long. That being said, "Welcome to the Real World."
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