Embracing the new

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.
Isaiah 43: 18-19

New, that is defiantly the word to use, and something I am trying to get used to and embrace. Everything in Kentucky is new and everything is different than what I am used to, but I love it. It is so beautiful on campus and the weather has been amazing, the sun does not set until 9pm because we really should be on a different time zone. At night lately it has been dropping to the 60's which is not usual so after dinner I go outside in a sweatshirt and read and than walk around the great lawn which is really a great lawn unlike CNU a few times for exercise.

I love the people here, I have never been in a place with so much diversity and people from all over including different countries. I went to dinner last night with a girl from South Africa, the girl who lives across the hall goes to John Pipers church, I went to church with a girl from India and down the hall is a girl from South Korea, there are people from every type of back ground here and I love it. Most people have gone to Christian school before unlike me so that is a little different, the atmosphere is a lot different than the schools I grew up in but this is exactly what I have been longing for. I already have enjoyed great fellowship, people in the community invite us into their homes for meals and fellowship. I went to the zoo yesterday but I left my memory card in my dorm so no pictures...sad....but were going back when it gets cooler.

Classes start next week, a little anxious about that because this week I have fallen into a routine which will change a lot once classes start. But it has been so nice to have a week to relax, rest, read, and just be after such a busy summer. I am excited to start classes and to learn and meet more people. The campus is still sort of empty more people will be moving in this weekend and than the halls will be full and the lawn will have more activity.

My quiet times have been in Psalms which has been so sweet just to read those and focus on them. I love it, the psalmist are so real and I love how one psalm he will be praising God and the next one he is questioning God, it is so like us, at least it is like me. They are so beautiful and rich I could meditate on them constantly.

Thanks for your prayers and for those of you who have contacted me this week, I love it here but I am homesick some days a lot more than others so it helps to hear from people at home!