Update
Okay I have been SOOOO horrible at updating my journal this semester. It is just that life has been INSANE!!! So I beg of your forgiveness for first of all, not updating in awhile, and secondly of all, for writing this when I am half asleep. Anyways, so God has been so good to me. He is showing me a light into the future and it gives me great hope to keep pressing forward. For those that may not know I was accepted to Indiana Wesleyan University to achieve my masters in both Marriage and Family Therapy along with Community Counseling. This should take me 2 1/2 to 3 years to finish. When I am done I hopefully will be licensed in both MFT and MHC. Also I am hoping to get my national counseling certificate as well. Then perhaps on to get my doctorate since I will have come so far. Last week, I made a trip out to Indiana with some friends and had an AWESOME time! God is just so good to me to show me different ways of living life. To show me that there is more than one way to live out your life. I now have an apartment. It is a one-bedroom apartment, a block from campus. I am currently searching for a part-time job while I am attending grad school. Also the professors TOTALLY loved us!
On top of all that, I am graduating in three weeks, which is amazing to me. I cant believe how fast these four years have gone by. How much has changed in those four years. How I have grown closer to God in so many ways. I asked God a year ago to help me develop my faith in him to be stronger and to learn to rely more upon Him then my own understanding, and indeed God is showing me all that this year. There have been some challenges this year, but there have also been some really good times. I am indeed going to miss Houghton immensely, but alas, it is time to move on and Houghton has taught me so much about life. Houghton has taught me what life can really mean and the hope that I can have in Christ. That hope in Christ brought me light in my life during a very dark time. That hope, that love I feel from Christ, has kept me going for years and it will continue to keep me going. I don't know where I am going to be five, ten years down the road, but I do know this: that I will have Christ with me no matter what I do, where I go, who I am with, or whatever. Christ will be there, holding me, as I continue down life's journey, just like he has always been and I know always will continue to do.
On top of all that, I am graduating in three weeks, which is amazing to me. I cant believe how fast these four years have gone by. How much has changed in those four years. How I have grown closer to God in so many ways. I asked God a year ago to help me develop my faith in him to be stronger and to learn to rely more upon Him then my own understanding, and indeed God is showing me all that this year. There have been some challenges this year, but there have also been some really good times. I am indeed going to miss Houghton immensely, but alas, it is time to move on and Houghton has taught me so much about life. Houghton has taught me what life can really mean and the hope that I can have in Christ. That hope in Christ brought me light in my life during a very dark time. That hope, that love I feel from Christ, has kept me going for years and it will continue to keep me going. I don't know where I am going to be five, ten years down the road, but I do know this: that I will have Christ with me no matter what I do, where I go, who I am with, or whatever. Christ will be there, holding me, as I continue down life's journey, just like he has always been and I know always will continue to do.