New life...

Well, school is officially starting. This year is completely new to me: new faculty, new people, new apartment, being single, on my own, and co-leading Bible study. The familiarity that I long for just isn't here. This makes life exciting, but very uncomfortable and scary because I don't know what to expect, or maybe I shouldn't expect anything at all. Dream maybe, but not expect. God has only given me today to live in after all! And many expectations become easily shattered.

There are a few people that I know in OT. One girl I went to Red Deer College with, and she became a Christian that year, so it's exciting to be in the same class again together, and to talk about the things God has done in our lives. Another I know through Kathryn's husband David. I'm getting to meet many new friends and am loving it. Everything seems very interesting, and I'm looking forward to fieldwork and practicum placements (I find out my first placement today...yippeee!). It will be ALOT of work, but once I get settled and have my mind operating properly again it will be good!

Occupational Therapy is so incredibly broad... Right now I want to work with it in the prison system (prison ministry put a bug in me I think), or perhaps overseas. It's neat that there's opportunity through the university for both. I want so much to have a single focus of serving God and walking with Him wherever I am.

At Bible study we talked about God's faithfulness. It was fun and good to share times where we've seen His faithfulness in our own lives. We toasted to Him each time proclaiming "Great is Thy faithfulness!!!!!" I know it to be true, and right now (and always) I really need to just believe it and act on it. He has always been faithful to me, and He will always be no matter what changes go on in my life. I'm extremely thankful for that, and love that my friends are experiencing the same part of God right now and we can all praise Him for it together.