Number Three

So, here I am! Sitting in my college dorm room between classes! It was my first day of actual classes, though I have been living on campus since last Wednesday. College is definitely a huge transition, one that is completely blowing my mind! I don't think I have ever felt so independent and on my own ever. No one is here to tell me to go to class. No one is here to tell me not to eat that cookie for dessert. No one is here to tell me that I should go to bed. No one is here to buy me food or snacks. No one is here to do my laundry! No one but me. It's a very strange feeling, yet one that I am happy to endure. I can already tell that my experience here at college will change me and who I am from the inside out. I have already had to stretch myself and expose myself to things that I would never have done at home. I have had to start over, with no friends nearby... no safety net. But God has blessed me. God has filled my life and home here at college with amazingly wonderful people. Though I have a hard time being outgoing and opening my heart to people right away, I already feel that I will have a place here. I am confident that God will lead me to the right people and the right group of friends. I am confident that God will continue to shower me with love that causes my heart to sing with joy, even when I am walking around the campus with no physical person beside me. I have realized that even when I appear alone to passerbys, I am not. I am not alone... ever. God is in me. God is with me. I can do anything through and with Christ. And honestly... I am realizing now that I need Him. I need Him so badly. I could not do this... life, college, school... without Him.

There is one body and one Spirit- just as you were called to one hope when you were called- one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 4:4-5