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Where did the time go? 2012 sped by and I feel as if I didn't have time to take in all that happened. A year ago I was preparing to embark on the trip of a lifetime. I was hoping to return older, wiser and different. I still feel exactly the same, 12 months later, except perhaps more overwhelmed. Only 9 days stand between me and a few weeks of freedom before I begin my last semester as an undergrad. Ha. What? That's another terrifying turn my life is about to take...what life is like without school and homework. The majority of my life has been spent in a learning environment and now I have to figure out how to apply all the things I've learned to the real world. Not that I ever want to "officially" stop learning. Just stop reading textbooks. In reflecting on how fast this year went by, I think it speaks to the shortness of life here on earth. And the length of eternity. Yes, 21 seems like I have plenty of time to live my life, but what's 21 years compared to eternity? Or 40? Or 65? Or 90? Sometimes it's hard to not live of the world. Society is so good at helping us get caught up in the little, trivial everyday trials and tribulations. We have to keep telling ourselves that the only reason that we are on this world is to know, love and serve God. He created us so that we could be with Him in heaven, but in order to get there, we have to strive for sainthood. There's a quote from the Disney Robin Hood cartoon that we loved (and still love) when I was growing up: "Faint heart never won fair lady," or something to that effect. Life on this earth is not a walk in the park. Sometimes you can walk in the park though... But because of our fallen nature, instead of tending towards good, we tend towards evil and we have to fight that every second of our lives. It may seem that we're working -- and failing -- forever. Like we are going to be trying and sinning and repenting forever. But compare only 21 years to eternity. Or only 40. Or only 65. Or only 90. Eternity is a heck of a long time...it's...ETERNITY. We don't know how much time we have left on this earth, whether we die or Christ comes for the second time. Let us saints-in-the-making strive to make the best of every second.