My thin place

Graduation can be a tricky topic. There are those normal days where I would do anything to pause time and adjust it to the speed I would like it to go and then there are those anxious days where I can see my future gleaming at the end of a tunnel and I'm in full speed mode. God has been teaching me a lot about how to handle these days that could not be any more opposite of one another.

When this year started I couldn't wait for May 17th to get here. Talking about my move to Texas to start my new life excited me more than I can find the words to say. Of course, I had people here that blessed me in more ways than one but the selfish side of me just wanted to move on from this period of my life. I was at a point in my life that I truly felt my time here in Blacksburg was complete. The lessons I needed to gain from these years had been learned and I was ready to check it off and start my new chapter. That's the thing though, why would I consider these 3 years as something to just check off a list?

I have come to appreciate Blacksburg in a whole new light over this past semester. It all struck me right before Winter Break. My exams had ended within the first 2 days but I was having a hard time packing up my things to go home. I started to really attempt to make each moment count. I realized that I had been in Blacksburg for the past 3 years but I had not actually been here. My eyes were starting to see what my heart had been longing for; a place that felt easy to be in; a place to feel like home.

With only 2 months until graduation I am trying to make the most of my time here. God has blessed me with friends who bring me closer to Him and who make me feel worthy of anything in this world. In these moments, it truly feels right to be where I am. I will say that I am very excited to watch my future plans unfold into a new adventure but I still have this adventure, right here, right now.

Right here, right now is my thin place. In a wonderful book, Bittersweet, that I am currently reading, it describes a thin place as a sacred place where God's breath and touch are closer than our own skin.

So, I may have many more thin places to experience in my lifetime but for right now, Blacksburg is the only thin place I'm going to get lost in.

xoxo