Your Life, God's Plan

Rush week… WHAT a week!! As we all know, rush week is filled with so many emotions, more than we can count. I want you to put your mind back to rush week and the emotions you had, were they all positive, all negative, or a mix of both? Personally, I was so excited yet terrified, asking myself all the self-destructive questions along the lines of if I would be good enough for any of the sororities. I caught myself thinking things like what if they don’t like me? Am I pretty enough for them? Did I do enough interesting things in high school? Do I stand out enough? Is my rush outfit cute enough? Did I make enough eye contact and smile enough? Is what I said in that last house weird?? I could keep going on and on but this post would go on forever (LOL!!). I am more than sure you can also remember all the self-critical things you asked yourself during rush too.

The day before it started a wise friend and father all in one (God!) told me something that gave me a huge mindset shift and is what I believe led me on a clear path to ADPi. But before I give that good nugget of truth, let's go back to when us girls were so little and started thinking about all the big and exciting things like what college we would attend, what are major would be, what sorority we would end up in, and who our big was going to be. Then the thought of if we would meet our bridesmaids there, and the bigger question of will we meet our husbands there too??? Just like rush week thoughts, those future questions went on forever. All those thoughts, even though exciting, sometimes had us overlook where we were in that exact moment, we would sometimes miss out on the present thinking too much about the future. Then without any warning whatsoever rush week was just hours away. WOW I don’t know about you but I felt like I didn’t have many moments of peace those days leading up. That was until God told me that nugget of truth I was telling y’all about that CHANGED the game for me. He told me that no matter what I do, I am not powerful enough to mess up HIS plan…. WOW, humbling yet so loving. I carried this with me throughout that week. Anytime I was waiting to go into a house I would repeat it in my mind to calm me down and give me peace, I would say it again after time in a house especially after I felt like I maybe said something awkward and messed up my chances. God knew exactly everything I was going to do and say through the whole process and knew exactly which one I would end up in.

Alongside being in peace with what God had told me, I had asked Him to make it super clear where I was supposed to go. Sure enough, He did just that. At the end of each day the other houses, although filled to the brim with sweet and loving people, still had me feeling torn and confused, yet I would leave the ADPi house with so much peace, joy, and clarity, all feelings that come from God. He made it so clear and not confusing because I relied on His word that I am not powerful enough to mess up His perfectly designed plan. He has been preparing me for where I was supposed to go way before I even entered this Earth. It is crazy how God shows up anywhere and everywhere. Sororities are man-made, meaning they are not going to be perfect, they are going to be flawed in one way or another, but if you let Him, God can be abundantly evident throughout your chapter. Here is what I want you to take away from this reading: I want you to seek out and listen to God's plan and follow it. So many times we pray to Him and ask for guidance but then forget to listen to His answer He has given you! The enemy's voice is loud and confusing, God's voice is gentle and loving, “Be still” (Psalm 46:10). Take comfort in knowing as long as you follow His voice and follow the steps He has laid before you, you will never be able to mess up His beautiful plan.

Love, Anna Kate (AK) Fuqua (AC’ 24)

Verses relating to this reading:

Jeremiah 29:11 “ I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Psalm 46:10 “ Be still, and know that I am God”

Matthew 6:34 “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Proverbs 31:25 “She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future”

Proverbs 19:21 “ Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails”

Psalm 37:23-24 “ The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord uphold him with his hand”