Adventures of a College Student: An insight to my thoughts

Adventures of a college student

Lesson 4: 

Gratitude

Today, I was cleaning my new room in my apartment. 

I came to this realization that my life has been immensely blessed in the last 3 years. I find it so interesting of the changes that have taken place with in me as a person, in those around me, and the world that we live in and my view of it. 

They have not been small or inconsequential, but to the world they are't revolutionary or life changing. The changes come in small subtle ways. It seems as though, I haven't noticed in myself the person I have been and continue becoming, until I thought about it this morning. I have seen great things, thousands of years of history, the way a culture can shape people into amazing things, history that amazes me and sends me to my knees in gratitude to the Lord for the talents and abilities he has given other people to create magnificent things and the people who were/are able to preserve them so they can continue to be seen. The ideas that the "American" way of living is great and wonderful, but I realize that I have come to have such a passion for history and places that have hundreds of years under the soil that I want to be a apart of something like that. 

The love of people of all shapes and sizes is something I can't get enough of. The idea that I can be who I choose is a great to live life. Wanting to live a crazy life full of travel culture food and a pursuit of understanding the different ways of life is not something everyone else understands and wants which is okay. 

I am grateful for the lessons I have learned at school, from awful roommates to people who dont understand the idea of acting their age to roommates who are amazing people with some much to offer the world, to broken hearts, bad situations, hard work and learning who can't do everything your self. 

Those are just a few of the thoughts bouncing around in my head today they may or may not be correct but they are things I can appreciate knowing. I have one year of school left, I can't wait to see what I learn next! 

- be grateful for your trials your greatest blessings and everything you have to offer those around you

hayley