How
do I find God? Well, that’s the question of the hour, isn’t it?
After much consideration and thought, I’ve come to realize that my encounters
with God come not so much from me searching for Him, but rather His
determination to pursue me. Whether these experiences arise from a friend
who wants to talk at the most inopportune time and ends up saying some of the
most beautiful and loving things I could have needed to hear at that moment, or
simply a perfect wind that flows through the Quad when my frustrations are
running high, it is the moments I have no control over that I find God.
It is the moments I delight in the wonders around me and realize how thoroughly
and completely my Creator has cared and provided for me. God is in the
professor that works with me to create a service learning option. God is
in the Sodexo employee who offers me my much appreciated chicken nuggets with a
smile, even when the hours are long. God is in the perfect song that
comes on the radio or in the Pub. He is in the challenges that bring out
the best in me, even when it is most difficult, but rewarding, creating me anew
and creating me as I was meant to be.
- - Reflection by Samantha Gormley
Samantha Gormley is a junior Psychology
major from Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She is involved with CLC, Social
Mentors, RAKERS, the Honors Program, Greek Life, and serves as an Orientation
Coordinator and a Eucharistic Minister. Her big goal for the near future
is to study abroad, but she says, “We’ll see where God takes me.”
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