New Life

Mother's Day gift - Ink, watercolor, pastel, charcoal

Change is wonderful. I feel like I've been given new life! 

After finals, I moved into my new apartment - I am not staying with my family this summer - and started my new job. Everything is new and shiny (figuratively) and oh my goodness change is refreshing. The job is kind of overwhelming at hard at times, but a challenge is good - and experience is even better.

God blessed me with better grades than I expected last semester (again!) so I continue to be amazed by his grace! He also blessed me with awesome roommates :D One of them I knew, but the other I didn't know at all - and we clicked right away! It's so great to have relationships like that ^-^

Needless to say, I have my hands full this summer - job, internship, class, senior project, church, friends, roommates...and perhaps a man? ;) (we'll see)

It has occurred to me, especially in these times of transition - meeting new people and being thrown in new situations - that character and reactions turn out very different than who I introspectively thought I was. I am constantly surprised by myself in how I react to things when I become unburdened by other factors that have apparently been weighing me down.

Furthermore, things I thought might cause me to have a certain reaction simply don't affect me, or have the opposite effect...! What is going on?? ...Who am I? I'm starting to question my beliefs about who I truly am...it's off-putting, but encouraging to see that I am indeed able to change despite my age.