My room. My life. The blessing.

So.. I'm moved in. I'm officially a college girl now. Many of you have asked me about my room, so I thought I would give you a little tour.

Our door..
The door that either locks in our craziness, or welcomes in the craziness of the girls on the floor. I have been blessed with such a great, hillarious, god-fearing, strong, beautiful, floor of girls. I love having them walk in and hang out, but also having "outsiders" pop in to visit. Being on the top floor, we have the easiest access to the roof which gives you the most stunning view I could imagine ever being able to have on a college campus. 

I feel my mom will be proud to see that I invested in one of these. I think my roomie was too.. But yeah, this thing is great!!!

I surprisingly have plenty of space in my closet, which means plenty of space to buy more.. in the case I had a job.. and time to actually go out and clothes shop.. and then actually be able to find something worthy of the Moody Standard. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind our dress code, it just takes that little bit longer to actually find something that complies.. That isn't fifty years old.

We have such a dinky little sink, but it fits snugly into a little corner which is nice. Here, we also have our second mirror, with the brightest light EVER which we don't use.

You can NEVER go wrong with pictures, right?! So we have strung up a bunch of our pictures along the wall. If you're special enough, you may even be up there! :) 

People moan about these beds.. They clearly haven't slept on a Capernwray bed. HOWEVER.. One of my profs had to stay in Houghton during a conference, and said he could understand why people would be so tired due to not being able to sleep on these. I fall asleep almost instantly.. I apparently don't have high expectations for the beds..

Lucie, and my nicely made bed and some more photos, cause again, you can never have too many pictures!

Then we have the mini fridge. Which currently doesn't serve to much purpose, but rumour has it, come a few weeks in to school it'll be stocked up and raring to go. Right now, the freezer holds ice cream and frozen berries.. To use with the magic bullet I bought for the early mornings without breakfast.. :D

I am going to try SO hard to keep this desk tidy. Currently all four drawers are in a jumble, but I'll get to that soon.. Maybe. I love our little fairy lights and lamp, it looks pretty sweet at night time! :) 

MY LOVELY ROOM MATE! :)

We have a good view over the plaza, and hten just need to step up a few stair to get on the roof and check out the other side of town with the skyline. It's AMAZING!

So that's a view into our dorm room. Dorm life is so much fun. Certainly different to living with a whole bunch of other girls. When I say I have the best floor, I really mean it. I mean, I haven't exactly been on any other floor yet.. But I just love my floor, the girls on it are so great! It helped that I got to meet a couple of them before school actually started.

I thought I could also share with you a few things about what I've been learning here so far.

The first thing I want to share with you comes from one of my classes and the book that we are reading for that class. Here's a thought for you, have you ever wondered what you CAN'T do in heaven, that you SHOULD be doing on earth? No? I hadn't exactly done much thinking on it either. I was talking with my roomie last night before we went to sleep and I told her about this too. Her reaction was "wowwww.. I've never thought about that before." In heaven, we're all going to be christians. There won't be anyone to share the gospel with. So this really challenged me to share it while I'm here, as christians, that's what we're called to do! So yeah.. SHARE!!!!

The second thing I'm learning is perseverance. And today, my perseverance came through on my run with the cross country team. As you may know, I decided to do cross country mainly because of  Caden. He's in heaven now, but I am not. I still have time on this earth. Time on this earth to run for God's glory. I said I couldn't. But I can. God has given me the gift of two strong legs, and I will not give up as long as I'm healthy to run. The past week of practise has SUCKED! Blood, sweat and tears (well.. not so much blood, but there has been pain) have filled my afternoon hours running in a temperature I'm pretty sure you shouldn't be allowed to run in. But today, it paid off, and I got to see the first bit of progress. 

I feel so blessed to be part of such a great, encouraging team and love everyone in it! When I say I can't, they tell me I can. They remind me of the strength that's there, even though my bodies telling me no. I pushed past that voice saying I couldn't, and proved that I could! I am so fortunate that God has given me such blessings over the past few weeks, and I can't wait to run more. With God's strength in me, I will keep on going! And I will NOT give up! 

To whoever is reading this. If there is something you keep telling yourself you can't do.. Re-think about it, because unless it's something crazy, or you have a legitimate reason preventing you from it, you most certainly, probably can!