secrets

This week in chapel, our speaker was Nicole Braddock Bromley. We were forewarned that she would be talking about sexual abuse and healing and finding our identity in Christ. I wouldn't tell  many people, but the counseling major in me was totally stoked. Part of me was also kind of apprehensive. Would God be speaking through her into my life?? Did I have secrets that were meant to be shared?? I have shared my secrets with some people and yet others are clearly in the dark for reasons. But the power of our stories, our secrets is incredible. Nicole totally blew me and our campus out of the water. I watched as girls would break down in chapel because Nicole was speaking directly to their pasts as well as her own. Girls letting down their guards and for the first time telling their secrets in front of tons of other women. Things like this make me so proud to be part of the Grace student body, but also proud to be part of the body of Christ. We had the opportunity to witness people coming alongside broken people and loving on them. We got to see men for the first time learning to understand the true epidemic and struggle of sexual abuse. I mean 1 in 6 boys will have been sexually abused by the time they turn 18 but no one talks about that one either... Obviously a topic that needs to be addressed. Also, her second book is pretty much going to be a great source for my senior seminar paper.... (ooh .... let's not talk about that one....) 

As the year goes on and I realize how close I am to graduation, I keep digging my heels into the ground. I mean, I have a job for summer (IN SAN DIEGO!!!!!) and all but the experience I had in college I wouldn't trade for the world. I've met some of the most amazing people, had the largest and best growth, have been so encouraged by, and learned the most. I know that it was a God thing that everything came up the way it did for me to come to Grace and then stay for all 4 years. I can honestly say, that through all the ups and downs I've experienced here, I am truly blessed. 

On the other side of the spectrum, each week this semester seems like forever. I'm only taking 4 classes again and I'm just a little ole RA. But I mean I feel like my 8:30 class this morning was like.... last week or something absurd like that. I feel very overwhelmed and very behind and it's like only the 4th week of the semester or something like that. I know I shouldn't be. I also know I don't take very good advantage of my free time and that's my own fault. I'm losing my patience so easily and not being very nice sometimes. I'm sure that's partially due to my lack of good quality time in the Word and with Him. And also my lack of quality sleep.

Since I am tired and can't think of anything really good to say about the school cutting the whole Music program and one art professor (which I'm totally backing the school because I have heard their in depth reasoning). I am pretty disappointed with the immature ways some people are expressing their frustration. Some people have a right to be frustrated and upset, I'll give them that. But there is a time and place for expressing that, right Adam?? All this to say, I'm posting a music video for a song I heard on the radio the other day that I just really enjoyed. The music video is a bit bizarre, but I just really like the song.... Enjoy.