Since I was a very small girl, I remember writing in a journal. My earliest memory of a journal was a light blue notebook with a rainbow on the front of it.

The journal had a little lock and key on it that held all of my deepest thoughts, dreams and prayers.

Not much has changed. I still write in a prayer journal every single day.

Keeping track of prayers, praises, hardships, joys, God moments….those journals are filled up and then some.

These journals are a reminder to my heart of God’s Faithfulness. If I do not write it down, I am afraid my feeble mind and heart will forget.

We finally, 10 hours later, landed at JFK airport.

Exhausted, cramped, tired, and starving, we made our way off the plane for a four hour layover, yes four.

All of us went in different directions to look for food.

Finally, I spotted a wing place that we were all familiar with and I quickly grabbed a table.

I plopped down, surely I was a sight for sore eyes. Hair greasy, clothes wrinkled, not a stitch of makeup, and more than likely a few drool stains on my cheek from the nap on the plane.

Joseph and Presley,

You will get a lot of advice as you graduate. Some things you will hold onto, some you will forget.

As you end one chapter and begin another, I have some things for you to think on, ponder, and decide if you want to implement them.

Many of these things, I did not figure out until much later in life. If you can figure some of these out now, you will be much wiser for it!