My Mountie Life: A Home... With Moving Pains

Ah... I love Sackville. That could be counted as a fact now. The weather's getting colder, but the people are getting warmer, and I am thankful for that. What a difference a few weeks can make. I know many of the people on my floor :P, it's easier to be a friend but also be myself around them, and most important to me, my friendship has grown with Kevin quite a bit, from the awkwardness that it once was. I make it my mission to pray every night for him and the rest of Chateau Bennett, that they would be able to see the God that they try so hard to leave tucked away. But enough of this for now, I need to make a new paragraph lol!

My new home.

A few weeks ago now, I found the MACF (Mount Allison Christian Fellowship) group here on campus, and I am so glad that I did. I don't get to go to church on Sundays anymore, which really kills me, but to be able to meet with other Christians is a blessing. I'd finally found a place where I felt at home. But no home is without growing pains, and this one has growing pains a plenty, musically speaking. Perhaps I've been spoiled, or overestimated how easy it would be to find musical and spiritual talent here, but God felt my disappointment when I joined in with the worship band here. We have so many willing people that play a variety of instruments, but I have struggled to keep my composure to be rejoice for their hearts when there is much work to be done. I'm dealing with this on a day by day basis, and I've quickly come to realize that just because things can't be the same, it doesn't mean that it has to be worse. It will grow to be good in its own way, and from there my growing pains will come from. However, I would rather grow than stay at the same place, even if developing means moving back a couple notches.

I'm thankful for the time that I have gotten to spend here. Yes, all of it. There are things that I've had to see for myself in order to grow, and good or bad, I've seen them here. Life as a Mountie is finally showing its benefits to me, and I will try within my beliefs and morals to take, to learn all that I can.