Student Witness: Mary Allgier

Hello, I’m Mary Allgier. I’m a senior Electronic Journalism and Spanish Double major, Strat Comm minor. The first two readings today talk a lot about trust. If you trust in God, you too shall live. Trusting God. I asked myself if I trusted God, and of course at first I thought, “Of course I trust God completely!” Then I really thought about it. I’ve always been Captain Anxiety. I know I’ll find a job and make a life for myself after I graduate. I trust with prayer and work, I’ll get to where God wants me to be. But I’m a very “in the now” person. I have a busy life between a full time internship and school stuff… and I’m training for a half marathon in between. I always want to know what I’m doing next and feel lost when I don’t know the next step. If you’re a senior, or even a junior thinking about next year or graduating early, you can probably relate. All your friends are getting job offers, you’re scared that maybe you didn’t pick the right career, and while you’re thinking “Job, job, job,” your relatives want to know when you plan on getting married! And all this time I keep trying to remember, “Trust God. Trust God.” I found a great quote online as I was writing this. It was from a blog called Tipsy Dad… but I liked it. “I've come to realize that trusting in God means you have to trust Him even in the impossible situations…You cannot trust when you're comfortable. It is only when we are uncomfortable, when you are in impossible situations that we can really truly demonstrate our trust in God. It is only then when we can truly let go and let God...and when we do, how awesome is the peace that follows. I realized that if I truly trust God, my senior fears are kind of silly. They’re small things I’ll (hopefully) laugh about in a year or two. So I’m going to listen to the tipsy dad: let go and let God.