Comfort

The sermon at church today was about anger and hate. It came out of Matthew 5:17-26 and it talks about how hating your brother or another human being is the same as murder. Though I did benefit from this, it was not the piece that stuck with me. The part that stuck with me was Ephesions 4:26 where the word of God tells us to be angry and sin not, and to not let the sun go down while we are angry. I am guilty of this. On Friday, I became so angry about certain condition that I went in my room and stayed there. I went to sleep and woke up the exact thing on my mind and that made me even more angry. I let it interfere with me, the me that likes to talk, the me that likes to sing, the me that likes to laugh out loud. I completely let the situation control me. So, in that, I know that I can't let uncontroble habits of people frustrate me because just like I become frustrated with others I know there is someone out there frustrated with me.
After service, I met up with a family. But while waiting on the family to finish fellowshipping I met some students. I can not recall their names but one was from Australia, there was girl from Finland that I take a class with at the EM, a few french natives, and finally, someone from Atlanta, Georgia. That was so comforting. She did not got to college in Atlanta but she did grow up there and I shared with her how I felt kind of out of place for the first couple weeks and also how I went in my room and cried. She told me that she went through something similar and assured me that I would soon get over my hump. Of coarse, I we exchanged numbers and I'm looking foward to talking to her and asking her lots of questions. She is teaching here, I think, and she has been here for over a year. That is totally inspiring and it is really nice finding people that you can relate to. So even though it has been six weeks, I'm finding a place to make a footprint. I'm going to prayer meeting at family's home on tuesday and they also have a power hour for the young christians, so I'm involving myself in activities here just like I would involve myself at home. I'm becoming French and this might be place in which come back and visit without all of the academic responsibilities. It's a drag at time.