Constant Change

I just graduated from Indiana University, which I am very proud of. I thank God for the journey he blessed me with, for all the ups and downs, and the truth I’ve learned along the way. However, the journey continues as I will be going to more school. I will soon be a graduate student studying information systems, which basically connects every aspect of a business over the internet or allows a business to function digitally using computers.

Throughout college, I had a lot of time to think about what this life really is. I’ve come to realize life is composed of a relationship between constancy and change. I call constancy the “math” (or science) and change the “art.” I feel that life definitely has constants and these are found through math and science. But I’ve also found that once you know these constants, you can manipulate and change them into different combinations to create art. That’s what makes life enjoyable for me: knowing the constants and producing different combinations with them. A classic example of this is cooking. You know what ingredients are sweet and which are not. That is the constant. How you combine them to create something tasty is the art. However, creating good taste takes a balance. Does it taste good enough or is the dish just a tad bit off?

I’ve found that in my life, I have always strived for balance. I believe life has a humor to it, in that I strive to reach this perfect balance point where everything will be alright or perfect. I strive and strive and strive, but somehow I always seem to not be totally satisfied with what I’ve obtained or how far I’ve come. It’s like life keeps constantly changing and giving me different combinations to master as soon as I think I’ve mastered them all. As Albert Einstein once said, “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.”

Personally, I think the only way I can ever reach this perfect balancing point is to believe in Jesus. He is the balancer. I think God designed this world using math and art, but designed it in a way where I can never enjoy this world to the fullest unless I include Him in it. It’s kind of like how we need the sun to survive but we can barely look at it directly, unless we have sunglasses. I view God as our sun and Jesus as our sunglasses. Jesus allows us to look at things that we wouldn’t be able to see without him. For me just graduating, the phrases “go accomplish your dreams” and “do what you love” have certainly been used. While I would like to accomplish my dreams, I know that as long as I believe and develop my relationship with Jesus, he’ll be able to open my eyes to things I would have otherwise been oblivious to. And maybe I might not be able to do what I love all the time. But I know that as long as I continuously pursue love, I will be ok. Because God is love (1 John 4:8).

-Brody