My Inspiration...

According to the "About Me" section on my Facebook profile, *Delightful (name changed for privacy) is my inspiration. Many of you might be asking "Well who the heck is Delightful?". That is a great question with an even better answer. Delightful is my former college roomate. We lived together for a year and a half, making this span of time the longest with any one roomate, for us both. I have decided to write a little about the relationship that Delightful and I have, because it has influenced my dedication and passion for my faith. One thing you must know about Delightful is that she has the most amazing, servant's heart. After a two year friendship or so, I can definitely consider myself blessed to have a close friendship with her. I think I've said it before, but I will say it again with assurance and for everyone to read: Delightful taught me how to love Jesus as an adult with a child-like heart. How do you ever say "Thank You" to someone who did that for you? God has put my heart at ease about answering that question. I'm called to love her. She is not only my best friend, but she is my Sister in Christ. No earthly friendship can beat that. I hope you all have someone like that in your life, too.


Delightful and I spent a lot of our "roomie time" talking and laughing a lot. And when I say laughing a lot, that is an understatement. We were with each other for our 21st and 22nd birthdays...which were only 9 days apart (I'm the oldest, but did not assume the role...EVER.) While living with Delightful, I was a hermit crab through and through. A complete, 100%, no mistake about it introvert. Delightful was encouraging me all the time to come hang out with friends, go watch movies, go bowling, go see a movie...anything! Over and over I would come up with excuses. Instead, I chose to work on school projects, watch movies for free at home, and do some serious homework. Your guess is as good as mine...I have no idea why I decided to waste precious time in college and hang out alone.


Distractions such as boys really got in the way of me opening my heart to my college friends. On too many occassions, I put my friends on the back burner for some guy who wound up having no significant role in my life at all.

While I'm sitting here typing, I keep shrugging my shoulders, shaking my head, and rolling my eyes. I think it would be accurate to refer to college as my "Realization Phase". Like many other phases in our lives, I figured this phase too, will be grown out of, but hopefully learned from. Like a broken record, I asked myself "What did I learn from this?" Whether it be a boy breaking my heart, me doing the heart breaking, or whatever...I asked myself that question "What did I learn from this? How can I grow?" Needless to say, I am done with college, but have not grown out of my "Realization Phase" yet. I am soaking up the world that I'm in. Learning all that I can. I have begun to wonder whether or not this phase has an ending or if it is supposed to stay in motion. I mean, I figure that I'm never called to stop learning and realizing the products of my actions.

These are the things that I remember now and I pray that God protects these memories. I think He plans on it, because He was the connector between Delightful and myself.