Wow. How am I already 6 weeks into my first year as a "college kid." This amazes me, I tell yah. My life has changed dramatically within these past weeks. I have already learned so many new things and have explored and discovered so many new places! Let's just say that I'm lovin' life. God is too good.
The most important thing that I have learned throughout my time here at the University of Wisconsin- Stout so far is just the power of prayer. Before I arrived on campus for move-in day I knew that many loved ones back home were praying for me and thinking of me, this alone was just so encouraging to know. But it wasn't until a couple seconds after I hugged my parents and sister as tight as I could and said our tearful goodbyes that I realized how powerful God's love is. I had so many thoughts and expectations about how this moment would go. This moment being saying goodbye to the most important people in the whole wide world. I knew it would be difficult, but not quite as difficult as it actually was. God was with me that day. I could feel His love and comfort like I never had before. I NEVER once felt alone. Ever since that day my relationship with the Lord has grown immensely.
This moment of experiencing God's love got me thinking. How in the world do people do life without Christ? How horrible that must be. To live without hope, without love, and without purpose. This thought makes me very sad. But this thought has also given me a mission and a purpose. And that is to reach out to those people who have lost hope, who have lost focus on what love truly is, and who are living without a purpose. I am so grateful that God has placed me here. I have seen and heard so many broken people and broken stories. This has encouraged me now more than ever to share this incredible love of God that I have in my heart. It would be so selfish to keep it to myself.
God has already been working in me so much and I am so excited to share my experiences and passions with you. So grateful for lovely life that I get to live. Let the adventures and struggles begin! WOOHOO! Stay tuned.
- P
The most important thing that I have learned throughout my time here at the University of Wisconsin- Stout so far is just the power of prayer. Before I arrived on campus for move-in day I knew that many loved ones back home were praying for me and thinking of me, this alone was just so encouraging to know. But it wasn't until a couple seconds after I hugged my parents and sister as tight as I could and said our tearful goodbyes that I realized how powerful God's love is. I had so many thoughts and expectations about how this moment would go. This moment being saying goodbye to the most important people in the whole wide world. I knew it would be difficult, but not quite as difficult as it actually was. God was with me that day. I could feel His love and comfort like I never had before. I NEVER once felt alone. Ever since that day my relationship with the Lord has grown immensely.
This moment of experiencing God's love got me thinking. How in the world do people do life without Christ? How horrible that must be. To live without hope, without love, and without purpose. This thought makes me very sad. But this thought has also given me a mission and a purpose. And that is to reach out to those people who have lost hope, who have lost focus on what love truly is, and who are living without a purpose. I am so grateful that God has placed me here. I have seen and heard so many broken people and broken stories. This has encouraged me now more than ever to share this incredible love of God that I have in my heart. It would be so selfish to keep it to myself.
God has already been working in me so much and I am so excited to share my experiences and passions with you. So grateful for lovely life that I get to live. Let the adventures and struggles begin! WOOHOO! Stay tuned.
- P