New Life

So obviously the whole new blog plan thing was a no go. Sometimes you have ideas that sound great, and then life happens and you never get to find out if your ideas were as great as they seemed (which honestly, is probably not a bad thing to begin with...). So yeah, also in the last few months life has completely changed. Completely.

I am now a music major at Murray State. I am hours away from anything and anyone I'm used to and its been the weirdest few months of my life. These few months have been some of the most difficult and lonely and scary of my life, but God has been so faithful and He has placed some fabulous people in my life and I have never been so "right where I am supposed to be." I love it, and am so thankful for this time in my life and cannot wait to see how these next few years turn out. But lemme say...

Being a music major is fantastic, yet so difficult. I love being able to focus my studies on something that I love and am passionate about, but at the same time, I miss being able to escape it as needed too. I can't do only one thing, it diminishes the joy I find in that one thing, and sometimes I find myself completely overwhelmed by the world that exists inside of the fine arts building and forget that there is a whole (real) world outside. I'm still searching for the balance.

Racer Band 2013 Pit. 

Because of the ensembles that I'm in I haven't had a lot of time to do much else, but marching band is starting to wind down, so I'm excited to get involved in hopefully a non-music activity or two (I'm thinking maybe intramural volleyball...). I have been able to find a church to become involved with, and I've even joined a life team and become a part of the "guest services" team, which means I get to make and serve coffee with a smile, and I've loved how a bunch of random faces have started to become familiar and even (some of them) get paired with a name!

Some days have been fairly rough, and some could not have been more perfect. That's life. Yeah, I miss my friends and family and being home where I'm comfortable. However, I know that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and that is a peace that is more powerful than even the strongest loneliness, homesickness, unsettled-ness. God is so faithful. If I have learned anything these past weeks, its been that.