Arianna Ghiorso can sense the finish line.
It’s true she has no reason to believe Saturday’s cross country conference finals will mark the end of her decorated running career. The senior hopes to qualify for nationals, and she’s looking forward to track and field season in the spring.
But sooner than later, Ghiorso will be a former athlete and a graduate of The Master’s University.
This doesn’t sit well with Ghiorso. “I don’t even have a small amount of senioritis right now,” she says. And it has sparked a fair amount of reminiscing. She sometimes scans through a pleasant bank of TMU memories: She’s had great mentors, she’s made lifelong friends, she’s grown in her desire for God’s Word and she’s been an NAIA All-American. The past four years have been simultaneously a grind, a joy and a blur, and she doesn’t want any of it to end.
But it will (she knows that). And the future is uncertain (she knows that too). However, she takes comfort in knowing God controls the future and that He’ll equip her for whatever He calls her to do. She’s already seen Him do it at Master’s, where she was once a freshman who felt wildly unprepared to lead her team and who often struggled to stay awake in chapel.
She’s come a long way since then.
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