University, the wilderness years?

Again, I am so very sorry, long time, no blog. What can you do?

Anyway, right now I'm taking a break from staring at the walls, also known as essay planning and thought I'd give a bit of an update to whoever is interested/any stalkers out there in the land of the internet.

So...University. Well, I've been here for about 5 months now. Weird. It has definitely been, what some may say as a bit of an 'emotional rollercoaster' (vom.com/verycheesycoinedtogetherphrasethatissometimesquiteaptinthiscasemaybe). I've very much enjoyed this new insight into the ever so scary world of adult independence, and i think it's safe to say that I've met some marvellous people, friends for life, I'd like to think. However, I think that the biggest step for me was taking this leap of faith without the help of my Christian family back home physically being there as my guide. I know that they have been there in spirit through prayer, and that is all I can ask for, really.

I think that the greatest thing that I have learnt so far at university hasn't been the pool of information I've had to spout out in essays, but the fact that God's love and Grace are constant. No matter how many stupid things I may get up to, He'll never stop loving me. No matter how many times I fall, no matter how many times I want to turn away from it all, do my own thing, He'll NEVER leave my side. He's for me. It hasn't been the easiest thing to do, to move away from the people I love, to a strange new city, trying to establish myself as a person with strange new people. Finding a church. Adapting to student lifestyle, having to fend for myself, sort out my own study and finances and fit in a social life on top of that- though how people can drink so much they get pareltic and fall into the beds of random people is beyond me...each to their own, I suppose. It's time of enrichment which will mould the rest of my days, and I'm so thankful for God's relentless love throughout this whole period in my life. It's only 3 years, but I want it to be a 3 years that i'll never forget that the favour of God was with me.

Would I say that University will be my wilderness years? In some ways, maybe yes, as I take my shaky steps onto the tightrope of the adult world, but I know that when I fall, God will be the harness that will protect me from harm, dust me down and bring me back up again.

Beth x