Back to School

Good morning from Engineering Hall. Yes, that's right, I am finally back in school. I moved to campus Friday and attended the first class of my junior year, Problem Solving Using Computer Tools, this morning at 9:55 am. Officially a student again.

Do you ever feel like sometimes you see/hear/feel experience, I guess, something in your day that is like tailor made by God for you? You know, the glimpse of your favorite wildflower, the breeze on your face, a color in a sunset? Sometime this summer as I was basking in the beauty that is Colorado, Sally asked me that, and I realized that for me, one of those things is thunder storms. Every time I hear a huge thunder boom and see lightning streak through the sky, I feel God's power, experience His sovereignty, remember His eternal plan. Every single date night this summer that I spent on Gologotha ended with a lightning storm in the distance, so good! Then the entire month I was home, nothing. No flashes of lightning or cracks of thunder, only a couple weak showers. In fact, when I was driving to Minnesota with Meryl last week [so fun :)] I told her how much in storm withdrawal I was.

So, as I was sitting on the futon Friday night, contemplated the question of how ready I really was to actually go to class in less than a week, and God ended this storm drought. Right as I'm getting ready to jump back into the crazy pace of life on campus, God decides to light up the sky with His glory and remind me why I'm coming back to campus this semester. To live for Him and give Him all the glory. All the opportunities that I spent an entire summer getting excited about began to play through my mind and I am reassured that even though classes are gonna be rough and there will be seemingly endless headaches and late nights, God has me here this year because it is exactly where He wants me, where He is going to use me, and that is where I want to be.

I can't wait to see what this semester holds!! What AIA is going to look like with our leadership overhaul, who God is going to bring into my life...I want to give Him everything!

Ephesians 4:1
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.

Father, I'm your prisoner, use my life.