look in your heart and you’ll find

It is now fall and October. In some ways, it is crazy to think that the first month of school is already done. In others, its hard to believe that we still have two months until finals. This month is going to be a busy one. As we fall into the month of changing leaves, pumpkins, Halloween, etc. etc., I see so many things that are coming up on my calendar. Not only do I have a ton of school work to do this month, but there are a ton of events going on as well. Next weekend I am going home for IUP homecoming. The following weekend is Messiah’s homecoming. The week after that brings fall break. We then finally come to Halloween and November. With everything that I have in front of me, I hope the busyness helps the month to go by quickly. Again, a paradox occurs though. While wanting everything to go quickly because of excitement and anticipation, I won’t want individual events to go by quickly. For example, I can’t wait to go home and see everyone again, but when I do I also know that I will not want to come back to Messiah only two days after leaving. I’m sure the same will be true for fall break. Even though I have decided to do a service trip this year instead of going home or visiting friends, I’m sure it will be such a great exerience that I wont want it to end either. Looking outside at the falling leaves, getting to watch football on tv, and hear stories from home about my 12-year-old brother’s successes in his first year of football excites me to no end, but I also just can’t wait to see snow and make it to the end of the month where everything will be crossed off of my calendar.

This morning I woke up and not only was it snowing but the snow was actually sticking!!! I absolutely LOVE snow! It makes me so happy. It could snow in July and I would most likely still be happy. So you can only imagine how happy I was this morning when I woke up to see snow outside my window. Apparently it had snowed Sunday slightly for the first time at Messiah, but I was in Delaware for the weekend and missed it. I also missed the first snow back home. It has snowed pretty consistently this week back home as well, which I have been reminded of numerous times by friends who know how much I love snow and how I didn’t have any at Messiah. Tuesday it snowed for a minute but it stopped as soon as it had started. To say the least, missing all of this snow was very upsetting. Today has made it all better though. I’m sure back home there is more snow than here, but we actually have snow on the ground and the trees (which is even prettier), so I am extremely happy!!