New People

That sounds like the name of a song doesn't it?  New People.  Anyway, I think the thing that I was most looking forward too when coming to college was meeting new people.  Its nice to get to know different personalities, and sometimes not so nice.  But its a change of pace, to make new and different connections.  I have met one girl, who has this way of talking that is just... just... dainty, I can't think of any other word that describes it.  Its just the most innocent voice you have ever heard, and its coming from a college student.  I love the way she talks.  Then there's another girl who is from Chicago, and its just so different, which in this case makes it fun to hear her speak.  Then today I met a guy named Chris, I met him in the shower.  We just started talking about training and such, and it was just kind of amazing to think that maybe God will introduce me to people even when I am least expecting it, like in the shower.  Although, currently I am sad that I haven't met any people who know God, or at least none that I know of or have become close friends with.  But I trust God to put those people in my life when he thinks its time that I need them.  Because I will need them.  "It is not good for man to be alone."  We need people, especially fellow Christians, as I was talking about the other day of how that mentor really encouraged me.  We all have our down periods.
     Sometimes I think we forget that even the great people have their struggles with their faith.  Look at Abram when he was going through Egypt he told pharaoh that Sarai was his sister for fear that he would be killed, rather than trusting in the Lord.  Or look at David who had an affair with Bathsheba and then murdered her husband because of his shame, or look at C.S. Lewis, who is more present day, after his wife, Joy, died he struggled with some of the very things that he had written about, for a year he was in a depression, he felt like he had shut the door on God.  Everyone struggles with their faith, even those who we believe don't, that is why God puts other Christians in our lives, to help support us and encourage us.