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This time last year, I was freaking out about graduation and what I was going to do after high school. 

Now, I'm calmly getting ready to graduate again from the internship program at my church with an Associate Degree in Biblical Studies, and I'm at another crossroads. Do I go on to graduate yet again next year, just to get that BA over with? Or do I take the time and focus that would go towards formal school and get educated in the things that I feel like God wants me to do? 

Verses like this make me think that I should go along with finishing my Bachelor's, simply because it's exactly what I don't want to do. 

       ²⁵ The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, 
      To the soul who seeks Him. 
       ²⁶ It is good that one should hope and wait quietly 
      For the salvation of the LORD. 
       ²⁷ It is good for a man to bear 
      The yoke in his youth. 
       ²⁸ Let him sit alone and keep silent, 
      Because God has laid it on him.                     -    Lamentations 3:25-28

Ugh. I agree, despite my discomfort. I do need to have endurance for the rest of the burdens life will give me. But I wonder - would God still teach me how to have endurance even if I wasn't a "Second-Year Intern?" Is it possible that God would be equally honored by many different decisions, or is it the one perfect vs. several permissible wills of God for my life?

I'm not trying to pick and choose how to creatively obey God, I want whichever path teaches me the most about God's character and draws me closer to Him. I'll let the peace of God guide me again.