The Lovely Dragon of Choice

Check out this essay by Dr. Anthony Esolen, contributing editor for Touchstone Magazine. In his usual wonderfully elegant, literary style, Dr. Esolen shows us why planning and scheming is not usually a soul-building way to live.

I am a senior in college. Therefore, the most common question I am asked (roughly 87,524 times a day) is "What are you going to do after you graduate?" Now, I have several possibilities. Most of them don't involve anything directly tied to my major (Intelligence and Foreign Policy), which I am quickly growing tired of explaining. I really have no idea what I'm going to be doing after May 14, and I'm not all that worried about it. To be sure, I'm making provisions, like applying to grad schools and various jobs, but I'm not set on any of them, and the lack of a definite plan doesn't bother me, because I know that whatever I do, I am in God's hands, and I will go where He leads me. I have been chosen by Him, and I'm content in His choosing.