Goodbyes

The last week has been hard. I finished my college program -so now I'm a graduate! Which is awesome, but it means I'm moving back home and have had to say a lot of goodbye's.
I'm really really glad for my time here, the things I learned, the people I've met, and I'm glad that I didn't waste it.

My memories of college will of course include sitting in class, sitting in lounges during a three hour break, assignments,  hanging out with my peers,silly jokes and studying. But what I'm most thankful for is that during my two years here I've been able to be a tiny light to people in my secular college. Having conversations about religion, God and who Jesus is to friends and acquaintances, singing worship songs at the bus stop, volunteering with adults living in poverty and learning to love them as Jesus loved the poor people of his time, singing, joking, dancing and praying with people who became friends at bible study, going to do street ministry downtown with friends from bible study,  getting connected with a good church family who cared for me (even if they forgot what program I was in).

These are the memories that are most prominent, this is what I had prayed for before I came to college - to make a lasting, eternal impact on people while I was here - and I sincerely hope I did that. g


So yes, I'm incredibly sad to be moving home, I love my life here and would like to stay and have been thinking the last month about how much I don't want to move back home. And God's been convicting me of that. He;s saying 'Shannon, A new chapter is starting' and He is reminding me that I need to be content in that, despite my feelings about it.
 Now it is time to go home and still be that light until God shows me what I need to be doing there or where He is leading me next.

But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.

~ 1 Timothy 6:6-7 ~

Holy is his name

Exalt the Lord our God  

and worship at his footstool;

    He is holy. 

~Psalm 99:5~

I'm so glad and so very thankful that God is Holy.

Just try to actually think about that...
It's truly impossible to comprehend the concept of someone being truly and completely holy when living in a world of sin and sinners.  I now I'll never really understand until I see God face to face but the small sliver that I can understand brings me to my knees and makes me want to sing and cry all at the same time!

I know my posts have been short and few lately but I just really wanted to get this out. I've taken a good part of this weekend (while I was sick in bed) to re examine my heart and I did not like what I saw and just knew I absolutely had to get back into a place of awe and rejoicing in God's presence before anything could really change in my heart to stir me out of mediocrity. And So I chose to focus on how holy God is and now my little heart is just overflowing with joy! :)
Be encouraged friends!