I finally caved. I have always wanted to be one of those "cool bloggers" but never thought I could pull it off. Well I guess I technically don't know if I even can, but hey it's worth a shot. I guess the whole reason for me even considering doing this is because it's just another way to show another perspective. Mine may not be the coolest, smartest, funniest, or wittiest perspective around but it's different. All I can ask for in this life is to love and to learn. I am constantly being changed and humbled and I want to be able to share what I can.
Tomorrow marks my last day of my maymester and I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Even though I was taking a stress management course (no, I did not learn the secret to keeping stress away, but I can tell you that Jesus and wine do help) it was still unwanted school work during a summer month. Tomorrow I am home free and have the rest of the summer to play. The funny thing is, I was actually kind of dreading this summer. Everyone thinks that summer is the best time to hang out with friends, go to the pool, yadda yadda. But let me tell you something- if there are no friends in town to go with you to that pool, it isn't as fun as you would have hoped. All I could picture for the upcoming three hot months (cicada free, thank heavens) was a summer with all of my friends not in the same town as me. Not only are they not in the same town as me, but they are gallivanting over in other parts of the world. #normal. And now since there is flesh eating bacteria swimming around in the lake, I guess that's out as well. I would consider Milledgeville unlike any place in this world but it just isn't the same when the best parts of you aren't there to share it with. So with all of my friends heading off to cool places over in Europe, to camps, or even just to their hometowns for a while, I was anticipating a very lonely summer. Like I said earlier, I am continually being humbled and God has showed me nothing but grace in the past few weeks. Instead of dreading a couple of boring months ahead of me, I am now looking forward to a very busy and blessed season. Within two months I will be a camp counselor for two weeks, moving into a new home with four of the worlds greatest, traveling to San Antonio with three of the greatest people I have ever met and to meet some Phi Mus from across the country, spending some time with my sweet Grandma in Ohio, and traveling to Alaska to serve the Lord and his wonderful people. I am overjoyed by the amount of blessings I have received in such a short amount of time. God is so good to me, every single day, and I am reminded of this daily. Not only am I being blessed with these trips and experiences, but I have made new friends and become closer with old friends who I can all say have the most wonderful and heart filling spirits. I don't deserve to have any of them but they all teach me new things about myself and show me how to be a better person and I thank my God for them each and every day.
My summer may not consist of Paris but it already has and will continue to have lots of laughter, new friends, and new stories. This summer is going to be one for the books. Here is just a little bit of what these past few weeks has been for me!
