Finding Hope: My Story

Do you ever have those days?  You know the ones that I am talking about, the days where you KNOW you should be doing something productive.  I SHOULD be catching up on my homework.  I SHOULD be looking for jobs for after graduation. And yet I can't.  I can only sit on this couch in this apartment where so much of my college life has happened.  This is the apartment I always ran to when I was having a hard time with my roommates.  This is the apartment where I lived with my dearest Lynette.  This is the apartment I came back to after my mission.  This is the apartment where I cried over boys, over my body, over my health, and over so many things.  This is the apartment where my college life happened.  Whenever I had to move out of this apartment, I always wanted to be back because it is the one place that truly felt like home during college. I have been so richly blessed.  I am so lucky to have had a place like this to feel the mo...

Do you ever have those days that just, for lack of a better word, suck? I have bronchitis this week.  Which will probably mean a month of bronchitis but you live and you learn, right? Anyway, this has been a stressful week in so many ways.  And then yesterday I was blessed with two amazing day changers. Day changer the first:  I was sitting in the HBLL just reading some book or other passing the time between classes.  I knew that I should be studying, or catching up in the classes i am oh so behind in, but i just couldn't.  It felt like such a feat to even be going to classes. Then a boy walked past me.  I am not sure if this blessed, choice Son of our Father in Heaven was dealing with some kind of autism, or just having a panic attack, but he was clearly and visibly troubled.  There was a part of me that thought "I should try to help him."  And then I got scared.  Why would this boy who didn't know me want my help.  And so I sa...