I already mentioned briefly, very briefly, that I was recently in Kansas. I was there visiting Sterling College where I plan to set up shop next semester. Got a pretty cheap round trip ticket to Kansas City with a layover in St. Paul on my way there and Detroit on the way back. I was joyfully greeted by Joe and later his, then girlfriend, now fiance Aly.
Me and Joe had always joked about me going to school out there, but it was always just that. It hit me sometime early last semester that it might be as real possibility. I was researching based on major and tuition costs. Most of my leads were in the southeastern part of the country. But, I was sure to keep Sterling in the picture. I ended up only applying to Sterling. I got my acceptance letter early this semester and was beyond excited. It did not take long for me to start planing my visit.
I guess a few days leading up to my leaving (3/13) I was super nervous, partially because I had been scheduled for a baseball tryout, but mainly due to the fact that I had gone through this whole process without even once praying and asking God if this was where he wanted me to go. I was more or less expecting to get there and feel so out of place and so unaccepted. That could not be any further to how the visit went. I was immediately embraced (some physically others socially) and made apart by Joe's friends. I think maybe by the second day, I knew that this was where I was supposed to be/go. What a blessing. There is no way that I deserved that feeling of belonging. God could have let that be the most miserable time. But he didn't.
So, as I sit here extremely lonely; I am clinging to the possibilities to come in the middle of nowhere.
God is good, all the time.
All the time, God is good.
-J. Van
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