Back to School

So as many of you know I have returned to Abilene to complete 16 hours to graduate in May. Still others of you know of my huge struggle just to get back into school, let alone graduate!

So I moved here last Saturday and I have to tell you, it has been positive in many wonderful ways. I drive a scooter, and it is cold in Abilene this time of year and I didn't have a good jacket. I have owned/lost several leather jackets. Well,my friend Leon had for some reason kept this old leather jacket. He gave it to me to wear...and it turned out to be my old leather jacket! Crazy karma, so now I had a great warm jacket to scoot to school in. I got to school at 7:40 (first class was at 10, excited much?) and I wanted to stop in the chapel and spend a few moments in silence to thank God for my blessings. I walked in and a sign said "enter in silence". Tim Kennedy was doing a prayer service in which you sat in silence, listen to some chimes, and he read some passages. It was exactly what I needed. So far so good. Then it got pretty weird. I was walking across campus and there a guy from one of the local TV stations, I had said good morning to him earlier, and he asked me if I wanted to talk about my first day of school! I had been in Abilene for 48 hours and already on the news!! It was pretty surreal and my family got a pretty good kick out of it. But it didn't stop there, folks. When God decides to talk to ya, it ain't a short conversation.

My first class went great, have an old professor I had my first semester at McMurry, and I go to my second class. And there he was. Now, this guy wasn't the one who punched me started a fight with the day before Coronation '04, but he was part of the whole thing. And I use to have a lot of resentment because he and the other person never got disciplined or anything. I used to have A LOT of resentment. But I looked across the table at him and felt nothing. It was truly an epiphany, to not have that in my heart anymore was just even more of a reassurance that I was where I needed to be. After class I went up to him and shook his hand and walked away.

Then I watched myself on the news at 6 and laughed so hard I cried.

BELIEVE.