New Beginnings.

Remember that time when I said I'd put up two posts each month? Yeah, well I kind of failed with that in August. None the less, I'm back and (hopefully) better than ever!

This past Sunday I moved back into residence at my Bible college and I just completed a week of training alongside the other student leaders (Student Council and RAs [Residence Assistants]). It's been a long and busy week, and I'm now fighting a cold, but I learned a lot this week and I'm feeling ready to face this school year. I have to be honest though, and say that for the first few days I really didn't want to be here. I absolutely love my school; the incredible people that I've met here over the past two years have really made this place feel like a second home to me. But despite that, I really did not want to be here. I have no idea what it was. In a sense though, it was good as it caused me to focus more on God, realizing that He is the true source of joy. It didn't matter that I was surrounded by friends whom I love, and whom I hadn't seen for four months. I still didn't want to be here. But by God's grace and the unending joy that He provides, I'm now settling in and am excited to welcome the rest of the student body to school on Monday morning!

It always strikes me as so interesting that something I've done before can seem so different when it's done again a different time. Does that sentence even make sense? What I mean is that last year I was at school a week early for training week, and I was in the same position - being the newspaper editor on Student Council. But here I am roughly a year later, and everything seems so different, so new. This year feels better, and I feel more confident and more prepared for my position. I feel like I know what's going on, and I feel like I actually belong on Student Council. And while I had to go through some of the same sessions as last year on effective communication, confidentiality and referral, and emergency procedures, that has caused me to realize that sometimes we need to hear something more than once in order for it to actually sink in and stay with us.

Something that I'm really looking forward to is that I'm involved in leading some musical worship with fellow student leaders on Monday. (Sidenote: our worship team consists of me and about six of the RAs so I really want to call us "Lizzy and the RAs".) Anyway, I haven't been on a worship team at my school since my freshman year, so I'm really stoked and I'm grateful that I have this opportunity to lead the student body in musical worship alongside some of the student leaders. God is gooooood.

Although this post isn't as long as some of my other ones have been, I just wanted to give a little bit of an update. My plan over the course of this school year is to use my blog more often, giving updates on life at school, things that I learn in class that stand out to me, or even things that I learn outside of class that stand out to me. So I'll be posting again soon!