It was all so bitter sweet...
As I walked across the stage, shaking the hand of the Dean of Arts and Sciences as well as President Leeland while being given congratulations on my accomplishments, I realized how surreal this moment in time was.
It doesn't feel any different...maybe because my schooling chapter is not closing for good in fact the page is simply turning or maybe it is just the same feeling that comes each year as another birthday rolls on by with little feeling of change. Either way I'm not sure what to think or how to feel as I poor through the memories that made up my GCSU experience.
The memories still so vivid take me on a five year road trip through the time in my life where I found Jill Marie!
18 years old I moved into a tiny dorm room that I shared with a high school friend...it was a scary begining to an exciting time...I quickly found a home in ministry with BCM at the time BSU...I joined the Impact team, a group that went around to local churches doing services of all kinds to help raise money for summer missions, after just a few short months as an avid team member I became the leader...this became the challenge of a lifetime and a trying period in my life as I dealt with college students as well as adults...I grew and I learned, my leadership skills flourished and burned in flames all at the same time...Impact team though incredible for a season was just that a season that came and went in my life...God had other things in store...I made friends easily and found a comfortable place within the GCSU community...my major was challenging academically as well as spiritually and the people around me seemed to be lost in a world I could not completely comprehend...these friends led to the oppurtunity for me to be asked to join in the sisterhood of PHI MU fraternity...the BEST decision of my life!...from there the memories poor out like a rushing waterfall, from formals to socials to ritual to tears to recruitment to love to honor to truth to sisters to family, things I never dreamed of...as my active Phi Mu membership progressed into alumni status God works was yet to be finished...in my last months on campus my life was poored into a small and intimate Bible study that proved to be one of my fondest college memories...
I say it was all bitter sweet because I leave a piece of me behind but gain a piece of me to carry on from the experience of what a college oppurtunity is all about...
