The Meditations of My Heart

Take a little mental trip with me for a second. Imagine yourself in the most perfect form, nothing ales you, nothing hurts, you are the most beautiful creature you can be and you radiate a supernatural glow that is insanely alluring to every creature (think about Snow White). You are walking through a lush rain forest. All of the colors are freshly vibrant from the mist of the most recent rain fall. All of the leaves and petals glisten in the sparkles of sunlight. You are perfect and in a perfect Utopia. As long as you keep walking through the forest on this path at the same slow and steady pace, nothing bad can touch you because you are right where you are supposed to be. A tree branch could fall, but you don't jump because you know that as long as you stay right where you are it won't touch you. Life is bliss and everything is good. Okay. This is you when you are in the center of God's will. Now, continue imagining yourself walking down this amazingly beautiful...

I've just been super busy. To be honest, I don't even remember what my last post was about or when it was. But the past three months have been a WHIRL WIND. It's hard to believe that it's already the end of March - only 5 weeks left to go until the end of the semester (ahhh the joy of getting out the first week of may!) My first year of college has been absolutely nothing like what I had anticipated it to be my whole life. I think as a typical Pittsburgh teenagers, we tend to grow up expecting to go to college. I mean there are SOOO many here, and of all different varieties, surely everyone must find at least ONE that fits. We expect that we will have the opportunity to leave home and start our own lives living on campus somewhere away from the safety net our parents have built up around us. We long to be free and to experience life for ourselves and see what we can make out of it. It births both extreme excitement and fear in most to actually live out the perfe...