A new day has come....

[beakah44]

well folks...that's right a new day has come. As I played in my Rec-IM basketball game tonight, I realized how totally changed I was. I'm not in Milo anymore...I'm an adult with a totally new life. It really freaked me out actually. I don't want to be old, I want to be young where I don't have to worry about anything. I don't want to have to be on my own. I don't know if anyone else out there feels the same way, but I just feel so darn old! It really upset me actually. What made me realize this was that I wasn't playing basketball at all like I did in High school. I felt like i had never played in my life...and I've been playing for 9 FLIPPIN' YEARS!!!!!!! But, it was important for me to see. God is changing my life in so many different ways, including my mindset and the important things in my life. No longer is it important for me to win the games against Lincoln and Dexter, no longer is it important for me to have 5 blocks a game, no longer is it important for me to figure out how to make our team get along, no longer is it important to even THINK about basketball...totally the opposite of high school. In a way, this is really good. I have much better priorities and the Lord is using me in so many different ways. It's amazing to see, and yet at the same time it's really sad. I feel like an entire chapter, or should I say BOOK of my life is over. I really, really, really miss high school tonight. I miss my friends from home, I miss my family, I miss basketball, I miss my basketball girls, I miss my easy high school classes, I miss EVERYTHING from home. (and Jenn if you're reading this, yes you were right about me one day missing Penquis...I thought this day would never come, but here it is! lol) But, I also am very excited for what's up the road. God is doing such crazy things in my life that I can't hardly keep up. Praise God for teaching me so many lessons. So, now that I've rambled on forever and a day, I just want to say thank you to all my people back home. I miss you all greatly and I love you all TONS! Also, I want to thank all my friends here. I am so excited to be a part of the Gordon College community and for making the awesome friends that I have. My prayer is that everyone will be able to look at the past and smile for the good memories, and yet look to the future and have a HUGE smile because life just keeps getting better...even if it is hard to let go of the past. Ok, so like the heading says, A New Day Has Come (I know, cheesy, from Celine Dion...but so true!!). Praise God for the past present and FUTURE!!! :-D Hope I didn't bore you too much...I just had to get it all out. Bible verse for today,

"Don't Copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is."--Romans 12:2