I am officially a senior at Cedarville University.
Let that soak in for a moment.
For those of you who have been with me through this entire journey, I am sure that many of you are amazed along with me that I have reached this point.
That being said, it's about time to give you all an update on life.
My summer was a paradox, it had so many great moments, but there were some very low moments as well. Peaks and valleys, as we would say in "Christianese." It was such a blessing to spend my summer here in Cedarville, but there were a lot of difficult personal decisions that I had to be making during that time, and many of the decisions I made were not wise. You live and you learn, but still it is difficult.
(So glad that I got to see Papa for a little bit.)
I was able to do some traveling, and though it ended up coming to bite me in the rear, I am still glad that I was able to go home, and then spend some time in two of my favorite cities.
(I had perfect weather during both of my stopovers in Washington. About 80 and sunny, both times!)
Life has been a bit wild these past couple of weeks as my list of probably unwise decisions continues to pile up. As many of you know, I am living off-campus this year in a house. I truly do love having my own space, but it has come with a bit too much craziness for my liking. They do not teach you in school how difficult it is preparing finances for your first place. It makes even more difficult being out here on my own and without my parents here to ease the stress. I am so thankful to all the families that have decided to make me a little part of their family, though, because I would not have been surviving these transitions without them.
This fall will be a trip, that's for sure. I am not overloaded with classes for once, I am only taking seventeen credits, but there's just a lot of other stuff going on. Hopefully there will be a few graduate school visits mixed in with my GRE exam and a trip or two to D.C. I am also hoping to get a bit more involved in my church and on campus during my final year here. We'll see.
My heart hurts that it's my final year here. I'm going to try and soak up all the wisdom I can from my favorite men on campus and try to grow in this greenhouse as much as possible before I have to go back to the real world.
Pray that I grow this year. There are some things that are going to be difficult things that I know will probably arise.
Hopefully I'll be back to regular posting soon.
Laura xx
