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Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night stumbling around in the dark just to find your way to your kitchen for a drink of water? You know the design of your home; you know the exact layout and furniture arrangement yet in the darkness of the night it all seems so strange and discombobulating. This is exactly what can happen in our daily walk with Christ as well. When life is full of light, open doors and new opportunities it is easy to walk in faith, talk with God, spend time in the Word and encourage others; however, when that veil of darkness comes, we seem to lose our sight. We forget that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever more” as written in Hebrews 13:8.

As a new academic year begins on college campuses across the country, students and families are considering one of the most important investments they will ever make: a college education. And many are asking an important question: Is it worth it? That question arises amid a national narrative that increasingly portrays higher education as too expensive, out of reach and no longer worth the investment. Those concerns deserve to be taken seriously. But when that narrative is fueled by incomplete comparisons, inaccurate information or broad claims that simply do not match the facts, it does a disservice to the students and families trying to make informed decisions about their futures.

People of a certain age enjoy telling our younger friends how things were so much better when we were kids. Of course, they always have a snappy comeback or two. “Oh yeah, life was good before seat belts, right? Y’all must have really enjoyed breathing all that polluted air. I’ll bet it was fun watching 3 black and white TV channels.”

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