Forward

Moving forward in life always requires formation and preparation. This can feel like a lonely, weary place at times, but it is such a great position to be in. Moving forward means that you're moving away from a troubled past and severing its emotional holds. It means that you have a forward gaze fixed on something new. It can happen rather quickly, it can be a sequence of baby steps, or it can come in stages of both, but either way there is progress.

Personally, as I am preparing for the LSAT, graduation, law school, and a legal career, I look to God as my source of motivation and strength. So, this is my encouragement, and I'll share it for anyone else who finds it encouraging:

Prov 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

2 Cor 3:5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.

Gal 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Jer 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

Jer 32:27 "I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?"

And after much study on my part and trusting God's plan for my life, one day I can say as Paul says in 2 Tim 4:7, " I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."

-Ashli