The Road Less Taken....

10:36 pm at night. Sitting in my best friend, Will Biestek's room, having a relaxing weekend here at HPU.This has been a great weekend so far, but as I sit here my heart is heavy. My heart is heavy because of all the students here who are lost and looking for something to fill the void, so they choose to party and get drunk. My heart is heavy because I once one of those students. Literally since we woke up today, there has been partying going on beside Will's dorm. I never really thought I would be affected by something like this, but I guess whatever is heartbreaking to Jesus has become something that breaks my heart as well. Honestly, Im sure I dont know most of those people who are partying but I long for them to experience the hope, joy, and peace that I have experienced. I just want to go over there, stand up on the table, and scream: "There is more to life than this!!!"

Please don't take this as me judging them, because its far from it. I know the reasons people drink, I know the feeling of having a longing of acceptance and to fill the void. It kills me to know that these students have issues so big that they must result to drinking, literally all day, to escape the reality of dealing with them. Maybe they want to escape a bad breakup or a relationship that's crumbling, but to say they are just having a good time is one of the biggest lies that society has told. I know I partied for the popularity and it worked. The more alcohol in my life, the more popular I became. I was accepted by the people around me. Then in walked Jesus, my Savior who I had believed I believed in my whole life, but never really had a relationship with Him. This is when I wanted to change, and when I began to change, I no longer wanted to drink. Something inside of me changed, and that something was I had been accepted by the Christ, the one and only Savior of the World. I was tired of the blacked out nights, the numerous times of puking, and the blurriness of it all. From that point on, I didn't care about the popularity or the acceptance... 


I began to realize that many of my "friends" were only my "friends" because of the parties I had and the alcohol and once that went away so did those friendships. For some reason, a peace came over me as I slowly watched the bonds I had made break.... God promises us to put Him first and he will give us everything else. This promise was fulfilled, God has blessed me with true friendships 10x over and I am forever grateful for that. With God as the base of a friendship, you can't wrong.

So here I sit, listening to the partying and to the shallow, alcohol fueled friendships and I can't do anything....anything but pray and thats exactly what I'm going to do. God has big plans for High Point University and its students...I can feel it


Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
                                                                -Robert Frost

Jesus calls us to take the road less traveled, the road that society tells us to stay away from... After walking on the wrong road for a long time, I decided to change and the joy I feel is the reason I will never turn back... it indeed has made all the difference

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  1. Luke SetliffMay 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM

    This sounds alot like my time here at High Point. I really like what you said about a relationship with Jesus opposed to just believing in him, I could not agree more

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