QuEen B

Man, I didn't realize how ridiculously busy I was going to be before entering college. I feel like weeks are just flying by, we're already going into Thanksgiving break!!

The last few weeks I've been thinking about all of the changes that have been happening in my life. My fall job has ended, the semester is almost over, a lot of my high school friends are different, and I even got my nose pierced! There are just so many different things that are going on around me and it's crazy.

With all of the changes and busyness I really haven't had much time to just hang out. However, I did to get to experience one of the coolest things ever!

HOMECOMING

Although I wasn't able to engage in all of Saturday nights activities (including the game) due to work, which was still amazing, I did get to go to the variety show! It was absolutely hilarious and my RA, who is incredibly amazing won Homecoming Queen! Erin is awesome and I couldn't have been placed on a better hall. We made shirts and all showed up to support her.

Homecoming made me realize that I really need to slow down and engage in what God has blessed me with, a fantastic group of girls that I live with! Seriously, N3N is what encourages me daily, they're all such beautiful people and I love the time spent with them. I know that it may sounds bizarre that something like homecoming can bring me such a major recognition of how much I love the people on my hall... but it totally did!

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"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead." - 2 Corinthians 1:3-9

God Always Provides

I've been going through these crazy phases here at Loma. As much as I know I love being here, I wasn't allowing myself to truly engage on this campus because I was afraid of not being here next semester due to financial issues. My excuses for transferring seemed legit and I was beginning to convince myself that transferring was the "right" thing to do and it was what I truly wanted.

I was absolutely lying to myself.

How could I ever want to leave this beautiful campus? This place that makes me feel so at peace with Christ... this place that has introduced me to some of the most amazing people I've ever met? This place is His work. It's authentic, beautiful, and more than I could have ever asked for.



Well, God has been listening. With the help of N3N, financial services, some of the most amazing professors, and an advisor that I'm absolutely blessed to have... I'm here and I'm cleared.

God has placed me here for a reason and His plans are still in the works of my life. I am still in absolute disbelief, but I am ridiculously stoked! God works in such mysterious ways and I'm learning to just fully trust that He will undoubtedly provide. I will continue to live here at Loma; I will seek Him, love Him, and make Him my center.