Anyways, I've come to the conclusion, and not without much wisdom from others, but this truly has been a real growing year for me. I will be the first to admit that College Park, MD had never come close to making my top ten list for places I wanted to live, but had God not seen fit in His infinite wisdom to place me here I would not be growing in the ways that I am. For the first time in my life I am living in a setting that is entirely foreign to me, and I must admit that it's quite terrifying. Never before have I been in a situation where I am so often in the minority. I go to the grocery store, to my Target, to Home Depot, and 9 times out of 10 I am in the minority. When I often walk into situations such as these I will admit I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb, and sometimes it makes me really uncomfortable, but slowly and surely God is making me really thankful for the diversity around me. Just the other day I was sitting in church as we were taking getting ready to take Communion and it hit me how amazingly blessed I was to look out before me and see that we have Elders and Deacons from all over the globe representing how the Gospel has gone forth to so many people. It truly is beautiful. I know that I have a long way to come in feeling uncomfortable being in the minority, but I also know that slowly but surely God is going to break down that fear within me.
On an additional note, I'm really growing to love my church body here which is a huge praise!
*This is a bit scattered... just proof I should have written this nights ago. My sincere apologies to all who a reading this.
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