The End is in Sight

Tyler and his wife, Anna.

To the best student leadership ever!!

My name is Tyler Ladig and I graduated May of 2014 after the best five years of my life (so far.) Student Leaders have to be the craziest people I have ever met, but are quite possibly the greatest people I have ever had the pleasure to know. I pray that God will allow your eyes to see the blessings each of your “co-workers” truly are.

Today, I find myself at the end of the busiest time of my life (so far.) Long hours, long commutes, and a never ending pile of work. The first 4 months of the year are what the people in my profession of public accounting not so cleverly call “Busy Season.” It means leaving work only to go home to work some more. It means constantly looking ahead for the light at the end of the tunnel, which by the way moves at an astonishingly slow speed; yet when looking back over the past year I wonder how I am already 5 months into 2015.

I had these same feelings as a student leader. The feeling that there will be an “end” to the stress, frustrations, school projects, finals, and overbearing student leadership demands. This end was appropriately named Graduation, and I unwittingly believed that I would graduate from all the stress and frustrations I felt.

God has this funny way of teaching us lessons we never signed up for. For me that lesson has been that there is never an end to our work. The stress of life will always be there.  It just changes it’s medium. I traded homework for deadlines and overbearing residents with overbearing clients.  Amazingly God never stopped loving me when I was ungrateful.  He did not withhold his blessings even though I am undeserving.  And He never denied me grace when I miss-handled the blessings he gave.

The stress I feel today reminds me of how blessed I truly am. I have a job, a loving wife, a crazy dog, a beautiful family, lifetime friends, and a forgiven soul. I pray that God will open your eyes to see all the blessings before you instead of becoming obsessed with having the green grass on the other side of the fence, like I did. 

SLT, 2013-2014

Romans 5:3-5: “Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.  And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.”

Tyler Ladig
Apartment RA, 2012-2013
SLT Intern, 2013-2014