God is Love

When I moved to Ogden, I don’t remember all the details of what my expectations were. I pictured myself coming here for school, and that was about it. I’m no social butterfly, so I figured my only friends would be my roommates.

Frist Roadtrip to Ogden

But now that graduation is two months away I am in awe of what has happened in a little under four years. The most important things I will take away from this season in my life have little to do with what I’ve learned in class. Instead, what has had the greatest impact on me during college has been the people I’ve met. 
I believe the reason I ended up going to Weber was to meet the people I now love with all my heart. There are no words to describe everything they’ve done for me. If they weren't a part of my life, I doubt I would even be following Jesus today.
Without small group freshman year, I wouldn’t have had the faith to fight through trials that hit the next summer. If my friends weren’t there to guide me through wrestling with God during my sophomore year, I would’ve walked away from Jesus. The past two years have been full of joy, but they’ve also been incredibly difficult. Still, I knew my friends were always with me. 

Love is crazy, because it is actually God himself. So with every experience I shared with my friends I was actually encountering Jesus. Through my friends God has shown me what his love is like. His love bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things. His love has never failed and it never will. 
A part of me will be missing when I leave this place where God has completely transformed me. And it breaks my heart to think that my time with my friends here is going to be ending soon. Yes, there will be visits, but we will never be college students again. We won’t be studying together anymore. We’ll be doing whatever adults do in real life, and I’m not sure what that will look like. 
God’s love brought me to Weber to be with people who would love one another and follow God together. I have hope and am confident that the same Love that brought all these people from Utah, Colorado, Montana, Alaska, Nevada, Wyoming, and Arizona to this place at this time will be the same Love that will keep our relationships strong no matter where life takes us. 

1 John 4:16

We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. 

God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.