"Do not be distracted by human beings. Or animals." - my dad...said while my sister is dancing around. And I (involuntarily) look out my window at a bird...
1 Peter 2:9
"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light."
John 8:12
"When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
Follow Jesus into the light! I'm in the light. You should be too! :]
And GUESS WHAT!!!!!
Saturday afternoon near 3-4 o' clock, my sister came home from wherever she was and handed me a large envelope from Knox College. She looked kind of torn between excited and anxious, and I felt kind of nervous. I was going to burst into tears if I hadn't gotten accepted, so I told her to go away and tried to convince myself it was too early for admission letters from this school, that it probably was just as advertisement or something.
By the way, for those of you who aren't informed, Knox is a small liberal arts college in Galeburg, Illinois, and it has a great creative writing program. It's pretty neat. Anyhow...
My sister wouldn't go away, and my mom came around, lingering, waiting for me to open it too, and so I did, my stomach tying knots, and I pulled out a paper, and the first thing I read, word for word?
"Your application has been accepted!"
My first reaction? "OH MY GOSH! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
And my sister ran away and my mom ran to look at the paper with me. Apparently I got 10 grand scholarship money and it was very amazing. This is the girl who was preparing to go to FJC because her grades were terrible and she wasn't involved in school at all!
Now, there is money to be spent, and money to be found to spent, and money to be made to spent, so...I'll be busy searching for awhile.
Did I mention that my dad has been so uncharacteristically happy for the past two days? It's so funny, but I think he's super relieved that he can say his daughter goes to Knox, even though nobody even knows where that is, and not Fullerton junior college.
THANK YOU GOD!!!!!! And the perfect verse accompanying this later that night?
"The Lord had said to Abram, 'Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you'". -Genesis 12:1
I will follow wherever God wants me to go!
And truth be told? I'm scared to death. I'm going to be all by my self, meeting new people I may or may not like, in a city I may or may not like, and I have to do everything on my own. It's really frightening. I don't like one on one conversations with strangers, and I'm supposed to do that in two weeks with professors and staff and such! It's scary, really. I'm socially awkward, so I guess I'll just have to get over that. I will blossom in college! So I hope. No, I believe it! God will take care of me!
Now, NYU acceptance, please? To that enormous school with an enormous tuition...egh.
And Knox's second favorite thing to say?
(their first would be "FREEDOM TO FLOURISH")
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