I am in awe of what this past quarter has brought me, and as it is the last week before finals I feel it appropriate to make note of the things God has done in these past 2 1/2 months here at SPU. Going into this quarter I was rather hopeless, I doubted that I would ever make solid relationships and truly enjoy my time here, and I doubted that God had anything here for me here.
As stubborn as I was about this issue, I can admit that I was wrong. One thing I lacked at home was real close friendships and relationships with Godly women. Sure I have girlfriends at church, but none that I would call my best friend and none that I was totally ok with talking about my relationship with God with. When I threw away my need to be on the phone with Seth ALL the time, and threw away my stubbornness about not being outgoing...I found a world of new friends here. Not a bunch of friends, but relationships that were REAL and deep and loving. Praise God! For this is what I truly needed! Maybe my grades slacked a little, and I didn't get to communicate with Seth as often as I would have liked, but I invested time in the women here and now I am seeing the benefits.
What has been really hard about leaving home besides being away from Seth...is that I watched a lot of my close relationships with my girlfriends deteriorate. Not that I wanted them to do that, but my two close girlfriends and I were no longer living in the same place, we all started new lives in new homes and had different friends. Not only did we live in different places, but we have different spiritual lives. Don't get me wrong, I love those girls SO much and respect that we don't all believe the same thing...but there is something about being friends with women that believe whole-heartedly in the same thing you do, and it is wonderful! I'm not so upset anymore that my old friendships have weakened because I have seen the power of Christian fellowship. It makes me want to invest more and more time in my Christian friends at home as well as my friends here! Even though I still plan on transferring, I know I will hold on to the relationships I have made here. God is SO SO good!
I still just can't believe I have a whole quarter here...summer come now! I want to be able to see Seth for more than 3 days at a time every month!
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