Healing Through the Pain of Separation

Since I last wrote, I have moved to a new city in order to attend college. Being eight hours away from home is hard on a girl who loves her family as much as I do. This pain that the separation brings is not easy. It has taught me that only by fully relying on God's grace and mercy am I able to make it through each and every day. Now, as the first semester of school is half way over, I know that while I still miss my family dearly, God has a plan and purpose for bringing me to this place so far from everything that I have ever known. The distance between me and those things has caused me to fall completely in love with Him again. Without this love, I would not be able to stand the pressures and stress certain situations have put on me as of late. Later today I will leave my school and travel those eight hours to go back home for a few days. Those hours I plan to spend with God.