Answers To Prayer

Once I got accepted to Montreat College I was really excited and felt as if a big weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Everything fell into place: the financial aid, scheduling, everything. This only made me more certain that this is where God wanted me.

Probably by late June early July I began to realize something. I was leaving everything and everybody I had known for 21 years and moving somewhere where I knew nobody. I hadn't a single friend at Montreat. So every morning as I got ready for my day I prayed this prayer:



" Father God, You know what I need. You know what I want. I want friends like on the show "Friends." Just a group that is close to one another and is there for one another no matter what. Father, send me the friends I need. But help me to be a friend that someone else needs. Father, I'm scared. I haven't left this town and ventured off on my own at all. You're in control. You know what is going to happen. I don't. So please Father, send me the friends that I need and that need me."



Before I left for school, someone told me not to come home until fall break because if I did, then I would want to stay home and end up coming home every weekend. I wouldn't establish myself. When I got to school I realized I wasn't going to be able to wait until fall break to go home. It was September and I was planning on going home one particular weekend. Also during that weekend, the school was doing SALT which is a ministry opportunity to get students involved in the community. That same weekend was the weekend I planned on going home. My RA at the time asked me if I wanted to go see a Shakespheare play that Friday night. My initial thought was 'Man, I want to go home.' I decided to be social and I would just go home on Saturday. The play was ok. When we got back she asked me if I would go to SALT with her the following morning. I hesitated but said yes. I was determined I could stay until fall break.



SALT went great! As we headed back to campus we got into a deep discussion. I'm not normally open to people I don't know too well. She had been going to Montreat for a good year before I came in the fall. Throughout our conversation we both found out that we both prayed for the same thing over the summer. Ever since then we have and still are very close friends.


God has blessed me with AMAZING friends. I could not ask for better friends. They are all gifts from God and answers to prayer. The best thing is that we are all different but we all bring something very unique to the group. I thank God for these girls everyday. If any of my friends are reading this: I love you and thank God for the blessing that you are in my life.