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| It just hit me a few minutes ago that tonight is the last night I'll sleep in my own room for a while..... talk about an eye-opener! | | |
| Hello everybody! So I'm rooming with Emily now, and I'm SUPER excited! She seems like a really fun, sweet, Christian girl. Move in day is Sunday, and I've been packing up all of my junk all week! It's so sad! I kept saying all last year that I was so ready to get outta this place and get out on my own. Now.... i'm not so sure. Columbus isn't but an hour away from home, so it's not that bad. I know that i'll be fine once I get up there and classes start and I get into a routine. I'm really starting to worry about me and Aaron and how our relationship is going to work out. I'm trying to be neutral about it, not being super lovey-dovey towards him but not letting it seem like I am pushing him away either. I'm trying to sit on the fence I guess. I just don't wanna set myself, or him, up for disappointment or heartache. This adjustment to college is going to be enough stess, and I don't want our relationship to stress us out even more. Everything's going to be MARVELOUS! Besides, God has got it in His hands. His Will will be fulfilled. Just please keep me in your prayers, and I promise that as soon as I get my computer setup in the dorm that I will fill you in on everything! | | |
| Well... the roommate thing with Nicole fizzled out... they gave me a different roommate b/c Nicole's not in the Hearin community service group that I'm in and they're trying to group all of the Hearin girls together. Now I'm rooming with a girl named Amber Johns (for now), but I know this other girl in Hearin named Emily. We're trying to room together... so I'll be with either one of them. I know Emily, but I don't know Amber. I'm just praying it all turns out ok. I know God's got it in His hands. Maybe Nicole really wasn't who He had me planned to be with. I dunno... we'll see, and I'll definitely keep you up-to-date! | | |
| Yesterday, I get a phone call from this girl saying she was my roommate for in the fall, and I hadn't received any information on my roommate. I was kind of concerned about it simply because I hadn't gotten my information and because she was black. I guess that's where Wednesday night's lesson came in, but I totally ignored what I had heard. I was very stressed out and worried about the situation. I was to the point I really felt like changing colleges (over something so stupid! I know I'm a big baby!) I was so expecting my roommate to be a white girl, and it wasn't. (I'm sure she wasn't expecting to hear a white girl on the other line when she called me yesterday!) I was being very judgemental and stereotypical, and I felt bad for being that way. My boyfriend pointed out to me last night that maybe God had put me with her because I needed to be a witness to her, and then it hit me that maybe she's suppose to somehow be a witness or blessing to me. That thought comforted me, and I have been praying for God to bring the right girl into my life to be my roommate that would be a good girl and would have some things in common with me. So I realized that this girl was the girl God wanted me to room with and that I needed to make the best of the situation.I decided before I went to sleep last night that I was going to call her today and just talk to her to figure out what she was like since we didn't have much of a conversation yesterday, and I made a list of questions to ask her about herself and her preferences. OMG! SHE'S SO SWEET AND FUN TO TALK TO! Her name is Nicole, and we talked today on the phone for like an hour. She's going to be at the July orientation, and so am I! I can't wait to meet her! I'M SO EXCITED! I know we're gonna have a good time together. She told me that just from talking to me that she felt she had known me forever, and I so felt the same way! God is just so amazing! I need to learn to let Him handle things b/c they always turn out so AWESOME! I feel so comfortable about everything, and I know college is gonna be amazing! | | |
| So my preacher has been doing a study on Wednesday nights on the book of James which I absolutely love love love! Anyway! Tonight we talked about James 1:22 which in a nutshell says don't just hear the word; do what it says. That really spoke to me. I've heard that verse of scripture it seems like forever, but it just really hit me what it means. We also went on to talk about being judgemental and showing favoritism, and it was like God was sitting there telling me HELLO! THIS IS WHERE YOU'RE SCREWING UP! (don't you love it when He does that!) the whole time Bro. Wayne was preaching, which is definitely a good thing! I'm one of these people who is very judgemental and notices instantly when others around are doing wrong , but it takes me awhile to notice that i'm doing wrong. I've come to realize i'm very hypocritical. For instance, people who live in my town, I can tell you anything just about anybody, good or bad, and alot of people have their "secret lives"and their "church lives". It's like they can put on their "church life" front around certain church-goers and seem oh so holier than thou, but when those people aren't around, then their "secret life" kicks in. AND I'M SO GUILTY! Tonight it was like a slap in the face. I know that it's something I've gotta change to help me get right with God, and I'm gonna need your prayers. I'm easily persuaded and easy to give into temptations. Thank you, God, for showing me that I'm screwing up!  | | |
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