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one to honor you?

      when there’s no one to see how brave and noble you are?

      almost all of life is made up of ordinary days

      and it’s how you live your ordinary days

      that determines whether or not you have big moments.

      get out there

      and make something of your ordinary days.”

      and i’d stumble out the door in tears.

      And I still remember the last day in my large high school.

      my sister and i were on the platform to receive little awards

      but a lot of kids could make a’s.

      and we were getting scholarships

      but whoever heard of northwest nazarene college?

      and when they would make the announcements,

      the students would give slight applause

      and they would go on

      and then the principal called jan and me.

      he said,

      “we’re hindus and buddhists,

      but these two girls came

      and brought their God to our campus

      they’ve changed our world.”

      and i can only remember the applause

      and that it never seemed to end.

      i was speechless.

      i can remember the tears dripping off my chin,

      inside i was whispering

      “daddy you were right.

      through the thousands of ordinary days

      when i wanted to give up, it paid.

      it pays to be true.

      it pays to follow Jesus.”

      and i went to college

      and faced good days and ordinary days

      but when i was a junior,

      it came to me.

      “ann, either you are going to follow

      Jesus Christ to the end

      or not follow Him at all.”

      after all,

      i was an honor student.

      i was becoming somebody on campus.

      i had big dreams.

      i had high hopes.

      follow Jesus to the end?

      what if i never had a dream come true?

      what if nothing special ever happened?

      nothing i ever loved ever came my way?

      would i follow Jesus to the end,

      if everything i loved was taken away?

      would i make that kind of decision to follow?

      for you it might have been an easy decision.

      for me it was six long months—

      ugly months—

      of struggle.

      “Jesus, how can i?”

      ‘til i remember kneeling by the couch

      in the tv room

      and piling into my hands all that i loved

      and knowing what it meant for the first time,

      “yes, Lord, from now to the end i will follow you.”

      yes, Lord

      to anything

      anytime, anywhere.

      yes, Lord—if you’ll go with me.

      that was really the turning point in my life.

      i chose on my own

      to follow Jesus to the end.

      i don’t know what it will mean to follow to the end.

      i have a feeling it’s a long road,

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