Bitter Sweet Goodbye

I am ready to graduate. The last 5 years have been absolutely amazing but it is time to start a new chapter. It was really cold today... blah... it is supposed to warm up later this week. I am definatly ready for that. It is really late and I have spent the last 45 minutes looking for the counter you see above! It is really hard to believe that my tenure here at K-State is almost up. I am excited to move on but it is bitter sweet. I am leaving behind so many people that I have come to love and expect to be there all the time. I have made so many friends... it is sad to think that I won't be able to talk to them several times a week like I do now... or hang out with them on the weekends... or skip class because you'd rather finish a conversation with somebody than go to class... I won't be able to go to a friends house at midnight on a weekday and start a movie... or play ping-pong in a living room. It has become glaringly obvious that some of the people I am saying goodbye to this semester, I will never see again. People that were part of my life, at least for awhile, in some special way, and I will never see them again on this side of Heaven. Thank God for Heaven! But then again... I must pray for those people that I know who have not yet found Christ... It truely is a strange feeling to say goodbye to someone knowing that chances are good you will never see them again. It is a small world though... especially with technology advancing like it is and travel being so common. There will be many weddings to go to in the next few years that will be mini reunions for all my friends... but soon that will end and only the close friends will remain. The Lord has truely blessed me in that regard. I have made some of the most amazing friends anyone could ever ask for in the last 5 years. Many of these guys I expect I will be sitting around a dinner table with in 40 years talking about the journey God has taken us on. It has been an amazing journey so far... I can only imagine what is to come...
thanks for reading my rant ... I need to go to bed.

- footprints of Chad, 3:37 AM

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