Middle.

As a college student, sometimes I feel like I am in an in between kind of place.  Almost as if my life is on pause until "real life" happens.  Of course, this is necessary - I need to be in college to get to where I am supposed to be and become who I am supposed to be.  Right now, however, I feel a little restless; I want to do something, I want to make an impact on the world, I want to help people, I want to serve.  But I feel like I can't, because I do not have the skills to do everything that I want to do one day.  I can't see patients or diagnose or give medical advice.  I just can't.  

But, the reason that I want to do any of those things is because God has called me to serve Him and use my talents for Him.  I have been called to serve.  I have been called to share the gospel and to make Christ known - to love like Him, to live like Him - in response to His love and power and majesty. 

And I can do that - all of the time - in my classes, when I volunteer, when I am with friends or strangers.  In the little things and the big things.  In the mountains and the valleys.  In all things, I will serve.  

Although I won't have a career for many, many years, my life's purpose is in Christ and Him alone - not in an occupation.  God will use me and my occupation to do great things for Him, but it is not my occupation or myself that will make it great.  It is God.

So, I wait here in the middle ground - serving my Maker in all things, not because I have to but because I get to. 

[Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.  Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.

All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant. -Psalm 25:4-5, 9-10, 14]