Today was a really good day. I cant believe I am almost a month into my last semester at college. But I guess its true what they say. Time flys when your having fun. This semester at Northeast has been a lot easier than my previous semsters. I am taking classes 4 classes that only meet twice a week as opposed to 3 which is what i did my previous two semesters. That makes it a little easier since i get fridays off.
We had our BCM meeting in the back of the student center today because we got booted out of our room for the week. It actually worked out better because we met a lot of new people we wouldnt have met otherwise. So it went well and we ate chicken from Katy’s Katfish and had a good time hanging out with one another. I cant wait to get started with our campus ministries this year. Last year was so awesome! Around the first of the year a lot of hurricane refugees came to the school from Louisiana and we housed them in the gym and hung out with them and kept them company until they could go home. We played with the kids and had a great time. We went on a fall retreat at the end of November and had the best time in the world.
Around that time we felt a need to do mission work and one thing led to another and we ended up in Guatemala! That was a life changing experience for almost every one of us who went. I loved it so much, I went back again this past August. The first trip with BCM made me realize how much I dont know about the world around me and how much of my life I’ve spent in a bubble. The whole trip in general brought me to terms with reality and made me realize how little I have cared for the world surrounding me. I write about Guatemala a lot because when I left, I left a huge part of my heart there. It made me realize that could be what I do for the rest of my life.
Before I really got serious about following Jesus I always thought that Christians were boring people and lived boring lives and never had fun. But I couldnt have been more wrong. Up until I fully surrendered my life to Christ, I had never felt so alive and vibrant. I had always existed here but never actually LIVED up until that point. After that I got involved with BCM (Baptist Campus Ministries) and saw how much living i had been missing out on. Looking back now I wouldve never guessed I would be this happy with my life. The whole past year has been great and it keeps getting so much better. So needless to say, I am stoked about what this year has in store!
