Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Jeremiah 8 through 11, and I am in the podcast studio with one of our Join the Journey volunteers and former intern, Lauren Frickie. Hi. Lauren, it is so good to have you back.

You've been on the podcast a good handful of times, right? But it's been a little bit. So would you just

catch us up on what's going on in your life? You've had a big milestone. Yes, and May I graduated.

So yay. And then I'll be going to Dallas Baptist University in the fall. I move in almost exactly a month. So I'm super nervous,

but I'm also getting really excited. And what are you studying? I'll be double majoring in their

program called PBE. It's politics, philosophy, and economics combined. And then I also hope to

major in Spanish. Oh, double major. So yeah. It's going to be a lot of fun. Which you serve at Watermark

in Espignal. And I'll be able to keep doing that because I'll just be in the area still.

Down the road. Lauren, what's one thing God's taught you or showed you or reminded you as you made your college decision and finished up high school.

Mainly to trust in him. Honestly, I didn't make that final decision about which college to pick until like

late April. And so all the way until then, it was just trusting that everything would come together as it should.

And the roommates I got assigned and all the mentors I'm going to get and just the

program and the people who are going to be in my program, I'm just really seeing God picking all

those people like to put in my life and just really seeing that even though I didn't make that

decision until really late. God had me the whole time. And I'm starting to see little bits of that

fruit already even before moving in. I love it. If you were to ask our listeners to pray maybe one specific thing for your class,

seniors who've graduated, they finished the high school ministry shoreline here at Watermark,

they're heading to college. What would be your prerequisite?

Probably as they go onto these college campuses or whatever they're

doing this next stage of life, that they build their routines and they build their daily patterns

around scripture and God's Word and that they don't leave that when they go off to college.

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