Houghton

Wow what a great picture. Again I am blessed with amazing friends here at Houghton.

I cannot believe that my first year at college is going to be over in 11 days!! Wow. Time flies. Its been a great year.

Its worthy to mention that I played poker for the first time tonight or at least attempted to (Thanks Walker and Ashley). We didn't play for money as it is against student policy. Also the Sabres lost...that makes me very very sad and somewhat grumpy because I have to give a speech tomorrow. (no correlation between the two actually)

Anyhow better get working on that speech.

Also reading "A New Kind of Christian" its really good and ironically tieing in what I'm learning in 3 major classes.

dinner

"In our lives we will go through times of heart ache and pain - it is ineveitable since we live in a fallen/sinful world. The staement that everyone will experience a rainy season is the truth - and it will only be a matter of time if you haven't experienced it yet. When we are in those times our vision gets so clouded because pain and heart ache does not let us see beyond the clouds at that moment. I experienced that first hand. The inner pain was hurt so much that I wanted the outer person to die physically. What I wasn't seeing, however, was God clearing the path in front of me. We see things through our human glasses and not our spiritual ones when tragedy strikes us. If you can just hang on a little longer - I promise you it does and will get better. I couldn't see it myself but God could. I couldn't see a second chance coming down the road but God did. I couldn't clear the path even if you gave me a bull dozer but God could and did."
-a friends blog

wow-so recently at Houghton i have been having really really deep conversations over meals. Many which have brought the statement 'what happened to high school lunch'. I think its just the environment and the safeness of not getting judged with my group of friends. So last night we were talking about suicide over dinner which is a rough topic for anyone including myself. I couldn't convey well what was conveyed in my life and better put into words by my friends blog. I know a lot of people don't understand what is conveyed here but I hope that helps a little.

On a much lighter note..have you ever tried to get raisins out of those little red packages...gosh it can be so frustrating.