So its Sunday evening and early next week I begin my journey to school. I'll be in New Orleans catching a few people before heading off to Ft. Worth, Texas to spend some just a couple of days with my grandparents. Finally a week from today I'll arrive back on campus. I'm anxious. I'm nervous. I'm ready. I'm excited. This is going to be a new season for me.
I say its going to be a "new season" for me because not only do my surrounding look different (new relationships, new focues of energy, etc) but the season of my heart is also different. These days my heart yearns for very different things. I find myself yearning for more routine, more/deeper relationships on campus, for community, and even to be challenged in my faith journey. This is all quiet different from my old self. With the coming of a new season of course comes the close of the old. I do lift up my prayers of thanks to God for my past season - it brought me to where I am and blessed me richly. So here's goodbye to the old season which looked a bit like this...
This past season saw my life centered around various spining satellites around me: extra cirriculars, a music major, a serious girlfriend, an anorexic social life, and ministry with Intermission (me as "leader") and the Lutheran Youth Organization/ELCA. I had little time for people. I did not understand the sabbath. I invested a great deal of myself into things in various, scattered areas.
It's my hope that this season will bring me to new places - up mountains I've never dreamed of climbing. Its my prayer that God would bless me with companions, community, to make the journey with. Its my hope that this is a season of streamlined and focused life and ministry. Its my prayer that God slow me down. Its my hope that this community will be a significant part of this new season. I pray for you all - that God would sustain you in your journies.
peace friends.
Tim
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