*reflections*
it's hit me tonight...graduation. saying goodbyes. or rather, see you laters. God has been soooo good :) I've been thinking for the last little while. Reflecting on when I came to Western 4 years ago, not knowing a single soul, person, thing; never experiencing life outside of my family or my circle of ppl at home. But yet magically, 4 years later, I look around and I see God's grace in the people around me. How He's changed my surroundings since then. How I have a family of people who love me, and no matter how I sometimes feel far from those around me, I know Christ & therefore Love is In Them & somehow I know I belong. It's neat to know I belong. I've never felt like I belonged anywhere before. BUt crazy enough, it's not just the people, it's cuz I know I belong to God and therefore to the people, not the other way around. It may seem like something everyone gets, nonchristians and christians, with God and without. I mean everyone builds friends right? true...but I feel these people are all a blessing from God. Without GOd they wouldn't mean so much to me. I wouldn't love them so much. I wouldn't have learnt so much.
God loved me SO much that He brought me to Western, opened my eyes to how the Christian life is so much more than what I thought in my box, and How much BIGGER my God is. And How much more He did for me On that Cross than just take away my sins. I have a greater desire to Know Him. And I praise Him for that :)
Thank you all for making an imprint on my life. Some of you may not that Christ is shining forth from you and blessed me in the process. But thank you. There are so many angels in this world (as Andrea likes to say=)), thank you for being one of them. :)
I'm going to miss you: ACFers (women's cell :) , small groups, grads, oh-so-many people....i'll miss you all though it's NOT goodbye :P), Laura (my roomie), Julia, Cat, my science buddies, the ppl i met at my lab...
But thanks for being a part of my life. And let's just keep pressing on to take hold of That, which Christ Jesus took hold of us = )
smiles!
heidi
it's hit me tonight...graduation. saying goodbyes. or rather, see you laters. God has been soooo good :) I've been thinking for the last little while. Reflecting on when I came to Western 4 years ago, not knowing a single soul, person, thing; never experiencing life outside of my family or my circle of ppl at home. But yet magically, 4 years later, I look around and I see God's grace in the people around me. How He's changed my surroundings since then. How I have a family of people who love me, and no matter how I sometimes feel far from those around me, I know Christ & therefore Love is In Them & somehow I know I belong. It's neat to know I belong. I've never felt like I belonged anywhere before. BUt crazy enough, it's not just the people, it's cuz I know I belong to God and therefore to the people, not the other way around. It may seem like something everyone gets, nonchristians and christians, with God and without. I mean everyone builds friends right? true...but I feel these people are all a blessing from God. Without GOd they wouldn't mean so much to me. I wouldn't love them so much. I wouldn't have learnt so much.
God loved me SO much that He brought me to Western, opened my eyes to how the Christian life is so much more than what I thought in my box, and How much BIGGER my God is. And How much more He did for me On that Cross than just take away my sins. I have a greater desire to Know Him. And I praise Him for that :)
Thank you all for making an imprint on my life. Some of you may not that Christ is shining forth from you and blessed me in the process. But thank you. There are so many angels in this world (as Andrea likes to say=)), thank you for being one of them. :)
I'm going to miss you: ACFers (women's cell :) , small groups, grads, oh-so-many people....i'll miss you all though it's NOT goodbye :P), Laura (my roomie), Julia, Cat, my science buddies, the ppl i met at my lab...
But thanks for being a part of my life. And let's just keep pressing on to take hold of That, which Christ Jesus took hold of us = )
smiles!
heidi
