I'm trying to think back to the beginning of my day and it seems sooooo long ago. Right now I feel really good and like God has just proven to me again that I am supposed to be here for "such a time as this." I was getting very discouraged last week: was really sick, missing spiritual connections with people from home, and basically being told by another girl in my class last week that I should not believe in God and that my mom's healing could be explained by energies.
The other morning I woke up feeling better, walked out my front door and for the first time noticed something in my front yard: a giant yellow rose bush; same kind as from home. I was sooo excited!!!! I called mom to tell her. Apparently when great grandma was looking for a place to live they couldn't find anything, but there was land with a yellow rose bush and she knew that's where she was supposed to be...something about a saint and God answering prayer. So we put that yellow rose bush in our front yard at home....and somebody a long time ago must have planted one for me here too!!!
Today was rainy and I slept through my alarm clock for about an hour, woke up, got ready in 15 minutes and walked to school fast! Had an interesting class about the history of photography and using art (photography) as a metaphor for deeper meanings. Then ate lunch with about 15 other people. I had left over pizza from last night. I went out to a cute little pizza place with about 15 other people from school. They cooked the pizza in the middle of the restaurant and it was amazing!
On my way to lunch this girl stopped me and asked me: do you believe in God? Do you go to church? Did someone say something to you earlier this week about it? Apparently someone had told her. She said that she wanted me to know that I am not alone and that faith is the most important thing to her. She said that when she heard what happened to me she almost cried and then thought about where it talks in the bible about being persecuted because of our faith. It was soooo nice to know that I have a support system growing here!
After our five our lighting class, her and I walked to a coffee shop down the street that has a church service on Thursday nights. We talked for about an hour about what God has done in our lives and what we've been realizing lately about faith and our journeys to Montana. They are crazily similar!!! The service was really good and we prayed together after. She drove me home and on the way told me that she thinks we are both here for a much greater purpose. I think so too! The connections that I'm making here with Christians are amazing. The other weird thing is: I've had this revelation of grace in the past few months before coming here and it is an underlying connection among the people who I am meeting here. She has had the same revelation in the past month.
I'm excited to see what happens with our friendship and with our group of students at school. We are all becoming like a little family here. It's so cool! I also really like the lady who confronted me on the God thing and I'm going to pray for her :)
Love you guys and miss you!
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