“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
St. Catherine of Siena
Just a couple of months ago, high school seniors were treated with a litany of graduation speeches designed to put a period on one part of their life and prepare them for the exclamation point of changing the future by entering college and getting a degree.
Now they are entering college and making one of the most important decisions of their you lives—what to study. And how do they make this momentous decision? Often by applying a decision making model of seeing themselves as their culture sees them.
“I like math, so I’ll study…”.
“I want to be rich, so I’ll study…”.
“I like/dislike kids, so I’ll study…”.
“What (insert name here) does looks cool, so I’ll study…”.
And four (or five or six) years later, degree (and student loan debt) in hand, many go into the workforce and discover that their career choice might have been a mistake.
So what if we spent our lives teaching children and youth to hear the voice of God? What if we taught them to know God as they are known by him? What if we gave them visible teaching moments by introducing them to how their faith and their work come together?
What if we spent less time entertaining them and more time helping them discover who they are in God?
We could probably have a generation that would set the world on fire.
