A New Year

I have been back at Texas State for about three weeks now. I missed it so much! But this year is a little different. I got a job as an RA this year, so obviously this cuts into my social life quite a lot. It's been a little difficult just transitioning to always being busy. If I'm not on call or working the desk, I have homework. And if I am for some reason free I jam pack every minute that I have so my social life will remain alive.

 I also have an 8am class this semester... honestly I thought I was going to hate it. But the truth is I have started to love it. Not so much the class itself but the 5 minute walk I have from my hall in the morning. Walking across campus at 7:45 in the morning has its simple pleasures. The campus is nearly empty, there are squirrels everywhere, the sun hasn't quite risen all the way. It's beautiful. That's really one of those moments when I feel so blessed. How can I complain about my life when I  am in such a beautiful place? I find my joy in those moments, it's like God knows exactly what's going to put a smile on my face and sets it up for that morning while I walk to class. I feel like sometimes I complain about a lot of things. But the truth is I have everything that I need and more. Something I read the other night hit me hard. 

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"

Matthew 6:25-27

It really puts life into perspective for me =) I've read it like a thousand times but it's still one of my favorite verses.

<3 Gracie