What am I getting myself into, Woodbury's Architecture program is both exciting and challenging. Model after model, drawing after drawing, you either sink or swim and with God's help I've been swimming ahead of the rest. Faith is a beautiful thing, if one places their faith solely in God, your worries will start to dissipate. For the longest time, I would always try to figure out how the day was going to play out and the rest of the week. However, I would always be consumed by stress and worries. I remember when my the semester would start, my family and friends would already know, "Oh that Emmanuel is in school mode." Without the intent of placing others to the side, I would unknowingly do this just to focus on school work or the next project. Sure I would make time for family and friends but I would never really enjoy it because that project or paper was always on the back of my mind. Not to say that being a good student is a bad thing, but it was more about my faith or lack there of. It took me a while to understand that if we just put our faith in God, our worries will really fade away. Being at Woodbury University has really opened my eyes to Faith. It is by faith that I was able to be blessed enough to pay for my tuition, and it is the faith that I have that allows me to finish all my projects and not have to stress about how receptive my peers and professors will be towards them. I live with the intent of putting God first in my life and everything seems to just fall into place. Daily I pray for the days events in the mornings, daily I read His word or listen to a devotional online. As one of my fellow congregation members put it, "We have to get into that spiritual gym." Today I live a blessed life, my worries and anxieties are gone and finally I am actually able to enjoy the days events as they transpire. Trusting in God has been something that I had to learn to do, and I have achieved this task through my spiritual maturation. I thank Jesus Christ who has done so much in my life and is allowing me to start out with a humble beginning, knowing that I will have a prosperous future. I could only hope that you may one day know the God in heaven the way I do, and I pray that your faith and trust will increase in your life so that your worries and anxieties will evaporate as well. Pursuing Architecture is what I may be doing, but being a Christian and striving towards God's best for my life is my passion.
God Bless you,
Emmanuel-God with Us
