That Blessed Hope.

"Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed."

For the most part everything has been great here. Maybe in my next post I'll update you all on school, job, and housing. But overall I'm really happy with the situations of life. In that respect everything kind of came together like it needed to. In fact, things have worked out just as they needed to in order for me to get here. But other then 'situational' things, there are other aspects of life down here that are really hard. The biggest problem that I am running into is that I have no friends. Most nights are spent by myself with my guitar trying to pick out bluegrass songs. I thought that I was lonely last semester, but I realize now how blessed I was to live with two awesome Godly guys. I'm pretty lonely here actually. Very lonely.

If you don't know me very well you won't know this, but I'm totally a community guy. I love everything about community (even the disagreements). I get energized being around people, or more specifically interacting with people. I don't interact much here. At first I thought it would be pretty sweet to go to a school that has like a 80% female population. It stops being cool when you realize that they all are married or have boyfriends....thats awkward....Anyway, I find it really hard to just invite myself over to hang out with girls single or not.

Anyway, so I'm lonely right? That affects every avenue of my life. When I spend to much time by myself I start wanting to not be around people and it's a vicious circle into loneliness. And whats worse is that I tell myself how much different things should be. I should have a girlfriend, I should have a church family, I should be in with all the profs at school. And I have none of that. So, I'm realizing to not look at my circumstances and instead look at the Lord. When I read verses like the one above I get really excited. Verses like that pull me out of my loneliness and remind me of the hope that I have in Christ. And I should be anxiously be waiting in expectation of Him coming to get me one day. HE is all I need. I might not have all these other things, but I have Him and He satisfies.