Seasons

So, after five intense weeks I have finally finished summer courses for grad school. It's hard to believe that I have been in Rochester for over three months now. Time has flown by and God has just been teaching me so much in these last few months. This morning, I was thinking about seasons of life. I was thinking how nice it is that seasons of life are always changing. Perhaps for some they don't change like they would have wished, but overall seasons of life change. I just want to praise God for each of the seasons I've been through and am going through right now. Through each season God has allowed me to meet so many great people. What a blessing. I look forward to the many seasons to come and the great friends I have yet to meet along the way!

There have been some stressful moments the last few weeks with school logistics. In those moments I get so caught up in the stress, that sometimes I lose touch with what really matters. It's so funny how God always works things out in the end, and yet somehow I always get anxious when the stress comes pouring over me. I pray that I can look to the future with confidence that God has planned a better story for me than I can plan for myself. He already has!

Heavenly Father, as I come to a point of break from the demands of classes, papers, and projects, I ask that you would fill me with your peace. Allow me to take you in with every moment and experience that is presented to me. Let me not take a single moment for granted and allow me to experience your character more each day. Please just have your hand upon friends, new and old. Whatever their struggles, I lift them up to you and ask that each person would feel your comforting hand. Thanks for loving me, even when I don't deserve it. Thanks for revealing yourself to me through everyday people. And thanks for sending your Son in my place.

Much love,

Audrey

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8:

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to rend, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war and a time of peace.