it has been a full day and gone by so very quickly! today i officially registered for the summer school and received my neat little packet with all the information i need and don't quite understand yet. :) everyone is so wonderfully friendly and the music school campus is absolutely gorgeous. you know the creek that i love? well, it runs right through the middle of it! the campus kind of takes me back to to my fun 'veritas' days at silver birch ranch, only colorado style. making music right in the middle of the wilderness. i.love.it.
speaking of friendly people, my housemates are so great. they are helpful and funny, and fantastic musicians. i'm excited to get to know them better through the summer.
probably my favorite part of today was writing a thank you letter. during the registration process, scholarship recipients were required to write thank you notes to their sponsors. receiving a full scholarship to be able to come here is probably one of the most humbling things that has ever happened to me. i honestly couldn't wait to write to the wonderful couple that provided for me to experience this summer. i could have sobbed all over the card...thankfully, i held it together. (for those that know me really well, this is a victory!) and, i've discovered that i will get to meet them in person. how wonderful!
they, along with my incredible voice teacher and so many others, were by what i believe is God's unfathomable grace, able to bless me immensely. i have been blessed.
when God called abram in genesis 12, He said to him, "go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I show you. and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing."
i'm finding that although i am not the father of God's chosen people, i am being blessed...so that i may be a blessing. i want to give my best and be committed to excellence (thanks prof) because God has blessed me! i want to bless others in any way i can because God has blessed me! i hope by His mercy and grace God will strengthen me to do this.
physically, i feel so much better today!! i sang for an hour, and aside from around a perfect fourth in my low-middle register, i felt in very good voice! feels so good to be back! it's so strange how fatigue, atmosphere change, and slight dehydration can make you lose three notes in your voice. i'm sure my muscles will remember them eventually. :)
tonight will involve dinner, shakespeare and a cup or two of tea. be blessed so that you may bless.
[ my soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour... the words of mary, the holy mother of our Saviour: luke 1:46.]
.samantha.
sometimes I get so caught up in how I feel or what I want to get out of something that I forget that maybe God didn't put me in that specific time and place to be blessed, but to help Him in blessing others...and that in itself is a blessing to me. beautiful writing samantha. thank you.
ReplyDeletei know the feeling kelsea...when i read that in genesis this morning i was very refreshed with a perspective i so often forget.
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