"What do you plan to do after graduation? Are you gonna be a minister or what?
Or what, my mind echoed in frustration. What?
I had been asked myself the same question over and over. And I still didn't have an answer. Graduation was only a month away, and it seemed that I was the only one in our small town school who didn't know what to do with life after the big day. It wasn't that I hadn't given it a thought. In fact, I thought about it most of the time. I prayed about it, too. But I still didn't have an answer, except to say honestly, "No I don't know yet." And I'd been saying that for a long, long time.
Though life seems to be moving others ahead, Josh appears to have come to a dead standstill. What does the future hold?
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