'09 seniors

I loved the seniors in high school when I was a freshman, and it's no different here as a freshman in college. There's just something about people who have had more life experiences than you, people who can give you advice about things that they've gone through beforehand, and especially with the ones I know here, they're willing to just be the older siblings you never had (or if you have older siblings, your older-siblings-away-from-home.) 

This is not to say that I don't love the sophomores and juniors that I know - they're pretty amazing as well. But I don't know, maybe because it's nearing May and I'm only starting to get to know some of the seniors, I feel so pressed for time. And I really feel like I'm going to miss them like CRAZY. 

Last night at the prayer meeting, I was praying for one of my sisters, and I just felt myself choking up for no reason. Like seriously? It's like February. And it's not like I'm never going to see them again after they graduate, especially cuz I expect some of them to invite me to their weddings (ahem). 

But I don't know, there's just something about being in this bubble we call college that allows us to foster relationships pretty quickly and pretty deeply here, and the real world is just so...daunting and sucky. Sucky in the sense that it sucks up time and energy. I already don't have time here as it is to respond to Facebook wall posts or return phone calls, so what would it be like to try to keep in touch after you get a job and whatnot? When you're not in the Philly area and you're like in freaking Illinois or Massachusetts? It's going to be super hard.

So yeah. I really love our seniors, my seniors, and even though some might still stick around...I'll still miss them as a group. They're such awesome, accomplished, solid people, with amazing talents and intellect and hearts and I just know that they're going to be used so well by God. And that they're going to be so influential in this world, even if not all of them become ambassadors or renowned surgeons or CNN anchors. 

Because each of them is a letter (a fragrance! ha) that God's sending out to the world, and they definitely are filled to the brim - covered in writing. And they will all become ones that will be read over and over again, kind of like that note in seventh grade that you got from the guy/girl you liked, and you kept it in your diary/wallet so you could look at it from time to time and just feel loved. ...Even though y'all probably lost interest soon enough, haha. But unlike those notes of infatuation, they're notes containing God's love - which never fails, which never dies, which never gets old.

And even though they're olddd comparatively to me, their hearts are always being renewed by God's never-moldifying love. :) 

Verse:

"You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." (2 Corinthians 3:2-3)