Things

I’ve spent most of my time having late late nights. Writing papers, studying for tests, looking at the book with everyone’s face on it. (Facebook) All the while sitting with a cup of creativity (coffee) in my hand. Please excuse my absence. Every time I would finish said tests and papers, my cup of creativity would be dry. It would have nothing left to give, no ink for my virtual pen, and no will to enhance my online persona.

If life were just a blink of an eye in comparison to eternity, the last time I wrote anything would be more of a bl…of an eye? Or just a b–of an eye? I’m not exactly sure. Things have been happening though! Changes in me, my life path, and everything around me. Allow me to focus on the most important:

In my life I have been blessed with a wonderful companion. Emotions are so hard to put onto paper so facts must be a close second. I know what love is. 1 Corinthians 13 tells us that love is kind and patient (Among many other things). We can read what love is, but to feel it is a different park. Previously (as well as currently) I’ve felt and experienced love from my parents and grandparents. In the second phase of life I’ve began to experience the love that they’ve shown me, come from other people. It’s noteworthy that a family’s love is all encompassing, and you find different types of love shown through others such as friends and close acquaintances. But a companion is the one outside of your family that has that all encompassing love for you.

I just changed my major. As a junior in college going for a business oriented Information Systems degree, I’ve switched it up. It all came down to one conversation that I had with this amazing companion of mine. Among the serious talks, devotions, and prayer time with this person we also have small talk. Sitting in the library I’m expressing the woes of my college career and how I’m not really enjoying any of my classes and foreboding the load ahead. She calmly looked at me and put it all on the table.

She told me that she understood that I wanted to be successful and make a lot of money. (And I do) One thing that I didn’t mention is that when you have a companion such as this they tend to know you better than you know yourself. This can be a perk. In this case it was a life-altering perk. Additionally she told me that every time I talk about things that I enjoy are never business oriented. That they have a creative orientation. Whether it is blogging, podcasting, or producing. Things that I had seen as hobbies and past times, she put on the table as careers. That week I changed my major to Organizational Communication, while obtaining a minor in digital publishing. That week might have changed more than just my major.

I think God puts people in our lives to give us a physical slap rather than a biblical one. I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands dirty with my church’s website as well as our college group. I’ve only been working the church’s website for a month and the college site I just finished this week. When I’m working on things like this it just feels right. If you’d like to bump the hit count on both sites I’ll spot you the link near the bottom. If you are in California reading this I’ll be needing an internship with my new major. If I can’t see you for a week I want to see you for a summer.

Synergy Campus Ministries

Glad Tidings Church of Muncie