Speechless

    Have I mentioned lately that I absolutely love the awakening of spring? All week, (yes even the day we got treacherous downpours of rain) I’ve felt anticipation building up within me, like something in me knows that something big and wonderful is about to happen. The promise of new life, of something so exciting it’s making my bones dance! Even now, we’re going through a cold spell, but as I look out the window, spring is coming! The birds are flying around and singing, the grass is getting greener, the contrast of the bright blue sky and little red berries on the trees is so charming…

    I was talking with my growth group leader and RD last week about how I really feel like my life couldn’t possibly be in a better place than it is now. I go to a college that I absolutely love, I have the most wonderful, godly, encouraging, loving friends that I get to call my brothers and sisters, I get to be an RA of the best hall on campus with the best RD, co, and cluster that I could ask for, I have the BEST family in world with such amazing godly parents that love me so much…I’ve been so blessed with a church family here at school that truly shows what the Body of Christ is supposed to look like, I have the amazing privilege of choosing a leadership team for my hall next year…and oh, those are just the big things that God has been lavishing on me in the past couple of weeks!  It seems like every day I’ve been so overwhelmed with God’s goodness that I seriously don’t know how to handle it!

"And I am speechless, I'm astonished and amazed 
I am silenced by Your wondrous grace 
You have saved me 
You have raised me from the grave 
And I am speechless in Your presence now 
I'm astounded as I consider how 
You have shown us 
A love that leaves us speechless!"

Old school music I know, but it's just been running through my head over and over lately. :)

Well isn't life just a bowl of cantaloupe!

Well I’ve finally gotten to the downward slope of the mountain of assignments, exams, books, papers, and all the other fun things that come with my hundred thousand dollar education. Midterms are this week, but thankfully I only have seven…haha just kidding, I just have ONE! So with the lymphatic system out of the way, I finally have some time to write about everything that the Lord has been doing, and my my, has He been up to some stuff! First, I would like to express my excitement that SPRING IS COMING! Ever so slowly…but it is! The weather is starting to get really crazy, it was 70 degrees a couple of days ago, but today it’s a chilly 33 degrees. I’m just thankful that the sun is up for a couple more hours every day and the walk to the mailroom isn’t too unbearable anymore. There have also been numerous spottings of robins flying about and I am often escorted to my psych class by their cheery morning songs. Mmm, I love those songs and how much they remind me of my Jesus’ new mercies every morning. In other news, I’m in one of those wonderful times when I feel so much like a child of God. (Don’t get me wrong, I do often, but there are just those times when it feels like He spoils me so much!) Allow me to explain. Anyone who is around me for more than five minutes will get to hear how much I love my school. I talk about it ALL the time and I believe my dear friend Elizabeth and I have concluded that “I love Grace College” is the sentence that comes out of my mouth the most. However, to make a long story short, there are a lot of frustrations that I have with the nursing program here. It got to be so frustrating that over Christmas break, I was talking to my parents about the possibility of transferring to another school after this year. It was something that I really didn’t want to do, but was considering. So anyway, I felt like I had these two options, and I didn’t really like either one of them. Oh man…I LOVE it when God has a third option up His sleeve the whole time. I get back to school, and there is this night when I am just stressed to the max. Those days rarely come, but when they do, I’m so thankful for them because they always bring me to my knees and to my Father’s feet. So I have all these things on my head and all these decisions to make, and I’m telling you, as soon as I said amen, Jesus began answering and opening doors. All this to say that Option C was more than perfect (of course!) and I get all four beautiful years here at Grace! Aaaaand that leads me to my next exciting piece of news! For some reason, God has put it in the minds of the Residence Life team that I would make a good RA for next year! WHAT?! I know, it’s ridiculous. It’s so funny, the very same week that I was sitting and eating a bowl of Reese’s Puffs telling Curtis every reason why I could NEVER be an RA was the same week that I found myself sitting in a room being interviewed by the 3 women RDs on campus to be an RA. Ha. God is CRAZY. I can’t WAIT for next year, to be in Indy Hall (The HOUSE, woo!), for my co and RD and I to grow so much closer together, to be so desperately dependent on God every day, to be challenged in a way I’ve never been before, to be a servant to thrity some girls…oh man. :) 

Oh, and on a side note, I'd much more fond of cantaloupe than cherries, thus the revision of the statement. :)