This the start of my Senior year here at Concordia University Ann Arbor and my second year on Spiritual Life. As freshman start moving in and returning students start coming back, I'm reminded of my first year and all the changes that I experienced. After sitting in the Student services building for a solid two hours running between financial aid and the business office, and missing the opening service I finally got to move in and attend the first residence hall meeting. While I was settling in, meeting my roommate, and wind down from all the excitement the realization hit me. I was now four hours away from my home, my friends and all the other aspects of the life that I had known for the past 18 years. I was starting out in unknown territory. With unknown territory comes a few wrong turns and bumps in the road. As the year went on many challenges were placed in front of me, picking my major, the deciding on what direction I wanted my career to go, the illness and death of two grandmothers and personal struggles to find who I am and what my life was worth. I can say that only through the Love of God was I able to make it out of that seemingly brief time. So as the 2012-13 school year starts I want to offer what insight I may be able to give into the challenges facing the freshmen and all other college students here and around the country. That is my goal for this blog and I hope the devotions that I post here will be filled with encouragement but most importantly the word of God through Scripture and, God willing, the Holy Spirit working through my thoughts and fingers.
I hope and pray that God will motivate all of us to meet our goals,learn about our world and the people in it, as well as grow in our faith and our understanding of God and how we fit into his marvelous plan. With that I leave you with this, "Be the Change you want to see in the World" -Gandhi. Though he was not a Christian I think he was very close to seeing what is at the core of the Christian faith. We have been changed by Christ and because of this change, out of love, we want to share it with everyone. As people outside the faith look at you be the kind of person God is asking you to be, and do it in a way that makes people ask "What does he have that I don't" and let the answer be this, that you have the love of God in your heart and because of this love you want to share it with all so that they may know it and come to Christ. Not because of what we do but because of what he did. God Bless you this day and this year no matter where you are in life.
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