Day 36: Amazed

Amazed is one of the songs we did at camp this past summer.  The opening line goes like this:

You dance over me, while I am unaware

You sing all around, but I never hear the sound

Lord I'm amazed by you, and how you love me

Often, to trust something or someone and to know them better, we have to have experience.  We often learn to trust in God's faithfulness through experiencing His faithfulness.  The first few, or few hundred times, that may take a blind leap.

Today, I wanted to share a story about how I experienced God's faithfulness - a time when He was dancing above me, and I didn't even know.  

My friend and roommate Laura and I are that college roommate anomaly.  We were roommates freshmen year and have lived together ever since.  Laura and I had a mutual friend before college.  One of my best friends from high school, Grace, had moved to Tennessee for a year and attended school with Laura.  When the summer before college began, and I was embarking on the roommate search, Grace remembered that Laura was going to IU as well.  She told me I should contact her when I get to school.  That we should get together.  She knew this would help because we would both be 6 hours away from our homes and in a vast sea of 40,000 strangers.

Laura and I connected with each other over Facebook.  (Our first messages are still archived, and Laura likes to pull them up every once in a while.)  At the time I was really worried about finding a roommate.  That is a huge part of the first year of college.  You want someone that you feel comfortable and safe around.  So, in a Facebook message I said this: I don't know where you are in the roommate search, or if you have found somebody. As of now I guess I'm what IU calls "going potluck." But if you are interested in a clean/organized roommate who doesn't drink or smoke let me know!

Luckily Laura was looking for the same things in a roommate.  We laugh at those first messages, and often reflect on the first time we met - with our parents at McCallister's Deli in Bloomington, IN.  There will be a booth there commemorated for us some day.  I know that God was at work here, because He not only brought us together as roommates, but as friends.  I know this because we sat around on our couches last night finishing each others thoughts and talking about our faith.  God's faithfulness in this situation is truly evident.  

Sometimes we have to take that first leap and experience God's faithfulness.  God has brought many people into my life in college and outside of college.  He has brought opportunity to learn and grow.  I am so thankful for the things He does that I am not aware of and do not expect.  I have experienced a faithful God and I pray that everyone is able to experience Him too.

~SP

 

This is one of the first pictures that we took freshmen year.  This was the dorm room we lived in in Read.

This is Laura and I in Chattanooga over fall break this year.  Three years later and I am still just as short, and she is still just as tall :)