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Graduation Speech: Our Journey Essay

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Roughly eighteen years ago, the twelve of us seniors were born in different places, under different circumstances and in different families, far from knowing each other and crossing each other's paths. Yet, God has already taken each of us under His tender care to work in us according to His plan. Our journey under the supervision of God has already started back then, each of us at a different starting point.

After raising and nurturing each individual in a very personal way, it was in God's perfect plan for all of us to finally bring the twelve of us together at Johnson Academy and to make it part of our journeys to cross our paths with one another. If it were not for this school, many of us probably would not have known each other. …show more content…

We have learned to go after an event or a project with all our strength and willingness, helping each other as a class with an upright spirit, even when we did not agree on some things. I have appreciated how my class gave a 100 percent with a cheerful heart once a decision was made, even when there were disagreements.

The senior class would agree when I say that the care and love for one another has deepened so radically this year. We are a group of people with all opposites, and we are so different from each other. I know it could have been easy to act selfishly and to pursue what each individual wanted, but God has faithfully worked in each of us and the tender words and encouragements that have taken place toward one another, how we were quick to help and serve each other, how we have confronted each other without harshness, is truly a Christ-like picture we have learned to paint.

We have learned so much from each other and we have grown toward Christ-likeness. Therefore it is a sorrow and yet a joy to say that the paths that have been so closely entwined with each other daily are now heading toward different directions. As we realize that we belong to God, and that He is the one who directs our paths, this time at Johnson was only a stepping stone in God's plan that we may mature and grow to be prepared for the path ahead of us. God does not make a mistake, and it

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