Checking in with... Maddie

We're coming to the end of week 2 and we're checking in with one of our students to hear how their experiment is going and what they're learning. Here's rising freshman, the mad-child Maddie Younginer.

So far this Disciple Experiment has helped me stay on track with God. I love going on choir trips because everyone gets on what I like to call a “God high” but when I come back home it’s always hard to stay in that mind set. This experiment has helped me stay closer to God and think about what Jesus would want me to do. 

The main thing that stuck out to me on choir tour and has stayed with me because of this experiment is interpreting things the way God wants me to instead how I want to. I never realized how many times a day I would just do what I wanted to do and not even think about what the Lord would want me to do. I have been torn sometimes because what I am used to doing isn’t always the way God would want me to do.

The main, hardest part for me would have to be respecting my parents more. My parents have tolerated when I’m stressed with school and, as much as I hate to admit it, it’s made me get into the habit of being more dis-respectful towards them. I love this experiment because it has made me take a step back and think, “What would a disciple of Jesus do?”