Day Zero #100

#100 - Get a scholarship

Do you believe in miracles?

I do.

When I found out I was getting a full tuition scholarship last year, I can't even describe how blessed I felt. With the cost of my study abroad, it was really a miracle. I hardly dared hope for another miracle this year. It sounded too good to be true.

But it wasn't.

I am so very grateful to the wonderful men and women who choose to contribute to the scholarship fund, so that students like myself who work as hard as they can but still don't have enough can still get an education, participate in things like dance teams or orchestras or study abroad programs, so that the realm of opportunities isn't smaller for those who don't have very many financial resources.

Someday I want to start my own scholarship fund. I want to be the means of providing miracles to other people - because I think it's the most wonderful feeling in the world.

Live like you believe

Today I wrote a letter to a really good friend of mine. It's nice. I'm better with writing than with actual spoken conversation. But in this particular letter, I was reminiscing on different parts of my life and the way different people had influenced it. And I ended up writing about the day when I gained my sure testimony of who I am and that God loves me.

It came during a Seminary presentation by Jenny Phillips. I was late, and I was in the back, and I was feeling more alone and unwanted than I had ever felt in my entire life. I was so hurt and so upset that I just didn't know where to turn anymore.

And then she sang this song. And somewhere in the middle of it, I found what I was looking for.

And it changed my life.

Rain

It rained today :)

I suppose I should explain that. I had a friend once who had a test canceled because it rained, and ever since then, saying that it "rained" means that an unexpected and much-needed miracle has occurred.

And it has...

I've stressed out about getting a job for so long I had never considered the possibility of getting a scholarship - plus, my GPA wasn't high enough this year. But I opened my email today to find that I've been awarded full tuition for next school year, even though my GPA wasn't high enough, because the award was based on my essays, not my GPA. Four thousand dollars. And here I've been stressing out because I couldn't find another job, which would keep me from earning about 2,000 dollars. I was blessed with double my dreams today, and it really makes me want to cry every time I think about it. It's just that amazing! I get to write a thank you letter that will be given to the donor, and I don't even know what I could possibly say to explain how much this means to me. I just don't even know.

Isn't it cool how when we try our best to do what's right, God takes our humble requests and grants them in ways we never even expected were possible? I'm so, so grateful for that!