[Brag Warning] Recently my brother JD finished his college courses, took his last test, fought the good fight of "higher education", breaking conventions and challenging the status-quo with creativity and dedication. He will have a bona-fide four year diploma for Business Management mailed to him. He did it on his own with a little help from CollegePlus Online for a fraction of the average cost of college education, in under two and a half years without setting foot in a campus classroom, all before his 20th birthday.
And now he is free.
So what did we do? Threw him a surprise graduation party, of course! It's safe to say he was very surprised. Our grandparents from Indiana drove all the way out the day before, and oblivious JD never suspected it was so they could be at his party the next day. Around 55 people attended, and a good time was had by all. And I could finally sleep soundly again after all that planning. A special thanks to my sister Hannah and my great friend Grace for all their help. Could not have done it without them. Honestly. :)
A degree isn't really all that special. It's just a piece of paper to hang on the wall and collect dust. But the perseverance, godly wisdom, and dedication he has cultivated are special. And by God's grace, they will never collect dust on a wall.
Psalm 1
1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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