I recently had a blog where I wrote about silence as a response to my prayer. The content for that blog was a brief summary of Derry's message to the Effect group right before Christmas break. Tonight, he came back to finish that message and I found myself in a different position than I was before.
Since college started, back in September, I have found it very difficult meeting new people at school. Even though I was happy for all of my friends who were meeting a ton of people at their colleges, inside I was extremely lonely and I was becoming hopeless that I wouldn't find anyone at IUSB that I could truly call a friend. I kept constantly blaming myself for the reason that I hadn't met many people. Out of the four classes I had last semester, only two of my professors knew my name, and I could probably count the number of people that I actually talked to on one hand. I began to think that my criteria for a good potential friend were too high. All I was looking for was someone who was a strong Christian and did not smoke, drink, party like crazy, or have a foul mouth. Little did I know that those qualities were going to be so difficult to find at my school. So I continued to walk from class to class every day by myself for the entire semester. All I wanted was someone I could talk to and hang out with aside from Tuesday nights and Sunday mornings. I started feeling bad for Christian, who I thought was going to get sick of listening to my cries every night.
Towards the end of November, aka the end of the semester, I began to just give up on finding friends for the first part of my school year. All I had to do was wait out Christmas break and then maybe, just maybe someone would come into my life during my second semester. It was around this time that Amy added me as a friend on Facebook. Now usually I am not one to add people to my friend's list if I don't know them; but she said she was the girlfriend of Preston, who I know from church, and her sister worked with Christian at the library. So, I went ahead and added her as a friend, totally not expecting much to happen with that. A day or two later, she sent me a message telling me more about herself. She went to IWU for her first semester, but was transferring to IUSB next semester because it was cheaper, closer to home, and she wasn't meeting anyone at IWU. She was hoping to become friends with me since she heard I was in kind of the same position.
Well, alright. So we proceeded to send messages back and forth to each other, opening up more and more each time. After about twenty messages sent to and fro, we both were extremely shocked to find out that nearly everything about us was the same. Our favorite foods, movies, shows, activities, games, and so on. Everything was exact! A month went by with more messages, some texting, and instant messaging a few times. The new semester was coming quickly and we decided that we had to meet to go on with our potential best friend status. So, last Friday, we dragged the guys along and had a double date, and I must say, I am extremely excited to see what happens with us this semester and more in the future! My prayer had become answered, but not just by this one girl entering my life. I found more people that I related to and could hang out with on a regular basis and I completely fit in! Over my Christmas break, I did get friends as a gift; and it's the greatest gift that I have enjoyed thus far.
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