Home from Austria

I'm home from an INCREDIBLE semester in Austria. The blessings that flowed this semester were absolutely insane. I had no idea that going to Austria was going to be such a healing semester. A month and a half in, when I pretty much hit rock bottom, I was so discouraged. But, I kept hope, went to the Lord with expectant faith, and was blessed beyond belief. Fr. Brad was telling me right before we left that he hasn't seen someone blessed by the Lord in his ministry in a long time. He told me it was because of my perseverance and expectant faith. I fell so in love with the Lord this semester. It's not just because of what He's done for me. It's because of His love for me. I really can't help but be head over heals in love with the Lord...and I want to share that with people! I want to share the love of God with people because I experience it every single minute of every day. I just can't help it! Hahaha. I think about it and I smile. God is so good and so worthy of my praise that I can barely stand it. It's a feeling that's almost impossible to describe.

So yeah, I'm home and it's so surreal. I can't believe I was gone for 4 months. It's good to be home, but honestly, I miss Austria like crazy already. I miss my friends, the Kartause (the monastery we lived in), Fr. Brad, the community, everything. I am so blessed to have had the experience to live in Austria for the last 4 months. I've got 3 weeks here in Cincinnati and then it's back to Steubenville for summer classes (and a visit in June to DC to see Fr. Greg, which I'm PUMPED about).

"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey." -John Hope Franklin.