Blessings - Friends

I know these kind of posts are repetitive and boring; everyone is saying how blessed they are with their friends and all, but I guess I feel the need to pile on.

After what I felt was a relatively stagnant year Junior year, I was a little worried about a boring senior year with little to no differences in my relationships. But God just blew me away. I felt so blessed, because not only did my faithful friends stick around through my senior year, but I met as many people as I did freshman year. So thanks to all of you friends, whether I've known you since freshman year, or for a couple months. And Glory to God most of all, because just when I started to feel like my life was beginning to get stale, He gave me more blessings in friends than I ever could have imagined.

I'll be truthful, I'm leaving Calvin with less than a great handle on business (my major). While I've learned quite a bit at Calvin, I can almost guarantee the friends and connections that I have made at Calvin will be so much more impactful on my life than anything i read in a textbook or heard in a lecture. That liberal arts education is good and all, but the quality people you meet in droves at Calvin is really the difference maker in my opinion.

I'm not one to be all reflective, but at my very last Loft this evening I was completely struck by the friends God has placed in my life. I honestly about broke down an cried (not much for that either) What more could I ask for? I have such a great group of reliable, close friends that I lean on for advice on projects, girls, jobs. I can tell half the time they'd rather have me just shut up, but they always listen all the way through, and give me their two-cents worth. These kind of relationships are few and far between, especially with people as opinionated as me. But my friends aren't afraid to speak their mind to me, and for that I'm grateful.

To those people I have met this semester, I am so blessed to have you spice up my life. You don't know how many times I said junior year that I wanted to hang out with new people, and there you were. Most of these stemmed from my trip to the Galapagos, where God showed me his creation in a way I never thought possible. For most of you, I hope we can get to know each other even more over the summer. It's been a blast.

As I wind up my collegiate career, I just praise God for the BEST FRIENDS ANYONE COULD ASK FOR!