Reflection

I’ve finally reached my senior year in college. Freshman year seriously feels like yesterday, so many great memories…so many great moments. I can’t say that I have any regrets, but obviously I do recall some poor choices I’ve made over the years here at college. One of the poorest choices I made from second semester freshman year until the end of my junior year was not taking the time to “stop and stare”. Plenty of refreshing, uplifting moments passed me by simply because I passed them all by without a second thought. Lately, I’ve been walking from the music building feeling tired and feeling pain from trying to continue life with illness but when I see the sun playing hide and seek with the trees between the cottages and the J building I can’t help but “stop and stare”. Lately, I’ve been just sitting in that area for a couple of minutes each day. I figure my apartment basically looks the same everyday, but the view outside changes minute to minute. If I don’t take in that minute it will just pass me by.
I’m enjoying this year so much…so far. I can see how I’ve grown since freshman year. I know a lot of others don’t see it, but I don’t think the same, and I don’t make the same poor choices just because I don’t want to do something. I can also see how the Lord is working in my life and in the lives of those who I hang out with. He is so good.
Out of all my years here in college one of the greatest things I’ve learned is that God is truly in control. Politics will always be around but at the end of the day I rejoice in the fact that God is forever in control. My life is in His hands and He will not lead me astray.