About My Post In The Prayer Room.

[Lil Red]

perhaps your parents want you to have some success in life by forcing you to go to college (not saying it's the only way to succeed in life). maybe they're afraid that if they leave you to your own devices, you'll "screw" up your future (not saying you'll do that). it can be hard for parents to let their adult children sink or swim on their own.

[Annie12]

Was looking for music last night to forget the drama I was going through and I found this compleatly by chance:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8w7mGug0c"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8w7mGug0c[/url]

[b]and this under it[/b]: "2 Corinthians [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8w7mGug0c#"]4:17[/url]-18

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

I do not own any content of this video. It all belongs to our Heavenly Father."

God is Good. This really helped me.

[Mark of the Cross]

Many parents are so keen to be proud of their children that they place unreasonable demands on them. I hope that's not the case with your parents. Prayers for you! Being young with so many problems to face is something I wouldn't like to go through again. Are your parents very religious? Have you tried telling them that you have prayed to God and that he has given you your direction in your heart. (I know you can do this because you said so on another thread.) Pray to God, listen for his answer. Go tell your parents and tell them that it is your life and you have to live it in the way that the Lord directs you. Be firm. If they really love you they will come to respect you for this opinion. I know all this because I'm a parent. LOL.

[emmaberry]

Annie: I only read your OP.

My parents TOTALLY forced me to go to a college I hated. The only difference between your situation and mine is that my parents were paying for school, so it is more understandable in my case that they wanted to have a heavy hand in the decision making process.

If it makes you feel any better, if I had picked my own college I might be severely unhappy, a sorority sister, drunk, dead, or pregnant right now. Why don't we just pile the last three into the sorority category?

My parents leading me to a truly Catholic (small) university pretty much secured for me a beautiful vocation to religious life! In all my pride, I am happy to admit that THEY WERE RIGHT, and I was very wrong. However, this is just my situation-your situation is, of course, very different than mine, and who knows whether this is the right decision your own parents have made regarding your college. I just thought I'd post my little testimony so that you can know that sometimes we are so convinced that our parents are wrong, and often A) they know what they're doing or B) they are wrong and God takes care of us anyway.

I am praying for your situation.

Edited September 3, 2012 by emmaberry

[TheresaThoma]

Remember that where you start out and where you finish can be two very different places. Also remember it is possible to withdraw at semester. Nothing is absolute. Go try to do your best and see where God leads you.