Trapped by Snow

Trapped on campus, but I never really intended to go anywhere. Though feeling like I could leave made me feel better. Luckily classes are cancelled two days in a row and tests for next week are pushed back a day. Some of the profs gave the speech that we didn't have any hopes of them cancelling college, afterall they hadn't done that since 1978. Guess, they were wrong and we can now set our own record. The whole state of Indiana is under a level 2 snow warning and so anyone on the road can get ticketed.

Here are a few pictures of what the the walk from my dorm to the student center looks like. (I was really only brave enough to venture out that far)

Transformation

I've never been very good at being social, but I have greatly improved in this area since high school. I know that God has transformed me and continues to do so still. I've been looking back at some of my journal entries, and I can't help but laugh at the things I thought, that has changed since I've discovered what it means to be free in Christ.

Here is a poem I wrote in 2004, that really shows how trapped I once felt...how satan had such a hold in my life.

Mask

Take away my mask,

And leave me face to face.

With the world I do not fear,

Yet afraid of who I am.

Take away the paper,

And the grace with which I write.

Shatter all the pencils,

Leave me with words that I must speak.

Take away the paintbrush,

To face reality.

No more worlds of blissful delusion,

As I color what I see.

Take away this deep emotion,

That I truly don't belong.

Causing me to analyze everything,

Teach me how to have fun.

Take away these walls,

Built up so thick inside.

No bottled tears of joy or pain,

I want my heart upon my sleeve.