A couple of weeks ago, I, along with many other college students across the country, packed up my things and moved back into my dorm room. Now, for some, this experience might be the end of the world as they know it. For others, it is simply how it is. However, for this girl, it is the best thing that has happened since the beginning of the summer, and here's why.
I am very much so a "home is where the heart is" kind of person. Since my heart currently resides at Milligan College, this is where I feel the most at home. I spent my summer working as a cashier at Sears, and that's about all I did. I began counting down the days until I could go back to school about a week before school ended last semester. To me, Milligan represents a home far more valuable than four walls and a roof. To me, Milligan is a community where I feel as though I am a part of something much bigger than myself, and I am convinced that humans need to feel needed.
Furthermore, God has blessed me with incredible friends who encourage me to live out my faith. Last Monday night, my friends and I got together in the lobby of the girls' dorm hall and had Bible study. It was incredible to have different people share what God has done in each of their lives this summer and to see how even when we all read the same scripture, we all got something different out of it. Do we all agree on everything? Of course not. We disagree and fuss and get annoyed with one another, but at the end of the day, we are a family.
When someone mentions the phrase "homesick," my first thought goes to Milligan. I have missed this place so much, and I am incredibly thankful to finally be back on campus where I feel I belong. So, yes. One does go to college for the academics; however, life outside of the classroom is what is going to make these years the best times of my life.
So, in honor of how every chapel service at Milligan is concluded, go in peace.
I am very much so a "home is where the heart is" kind of person. Since my heart currently resides at Milligan College, this is where I feel the most at home. I spent my summer working as a cashier at Sears, and that's about all I did. I began counting down the days until I could go back to school about a week before school ended last semester. To me, Milligan represents a home far more valuable than four walls and a roof. To me, Milligan is a community where I feel as though I am a part of something much bigger than myself, and I am convinced that humans need to feel needed.
Furthermore, God has blessed me with incredible friends who encourage me to live out my faith. Last Monday night, my friends and I got together in the lobby of the girls' dorm hall and had Bible study. It was incredible to have different people share what God has done in each of their lives this summer and to see how even when we all read the same scripture, we all got something different out of it. Do we all agree on everything? Of course not. We disagree and fuss and get annoyed with one another, but at the end of the day, we are a family.
When someone mentions the phrase "homesick," my first thought goes to Milligan. I have missed this place so much, and I am incredibly thankful to finally be back on campus where I feel I belong. So, yes. One does go to college for the academics; however, life outside of the classroom is what is going to make these years the best times of my life.
So, in honor of how every chapel service at Milligan is concluded, go in peace.
