The Plan, the Experience: Weimar

Do you have any idea what a blessing it is to attend a college where the teachers are more concerned for the spiritual welfare and growth of their students than anything else? God is first here at Weimar College. Students are second. While our studies are important, the order of priority follows the plan of true education. We're facing finals next week, so the conformation of the dedication that our teachers are expressing comes with amazing reassurance. I'm praising God for leading me to this place.
My experience here reflects the journey of life. I started off the semester feeling very burdened, very impaired by the thick fog of the forest. I was incredibly homesick - rightly so, I do believe -. While I still miss my home and my family immensely, I am at peace. I explained the joy I found backpacking one of last posts, but right now I just want to briefly say that I'm excited to be part of a movement to change the world. I'm excited to be part of Weimar. I'm moving up to higher places.
I didn't start school here expecting to be so profoundly impacted. I wanted a nice, SDA Christian environment as a change from public college. I have found that, I admit. But what Weimar offers is something so much deeper, something so much more vital to my life than just taking classes in a good environment. Here at Weimar, we talk, think, eat, study, play, sing, sweat, cry, pray, plead, encourage, listen, and live Jesus. Believe me, until you've experienced it, you have no idea what I'm talking about. I am about to walk away next Friday morning to go home for a month, but I'm walking away with a changed life. My life is to live for nothing short of being where God wants me, doing exactly what He wants me to do, and to be sharing just what He thinks is best for the moment I am in. I'm going to take the principles and practices I'm learning here at Weimar with me throughout my whole life.
You better believe it, I'm coming back next semester. Sure, I hate the noise of the dorm, I don't like the expenses of living away from my parents' kind support, I don't like some of the ways certain things are handled, but I love Weimar. The principles are strong. The mission mindset is compelling.
I'm going to be a medical missionary. Being at Weimar has taught me that public college changed me in one way; I stopped saying medical missionary for the sake of having to explain the term. But at Weimar, I've discovered how I was influenced and I'm doing all I can to remedy years of neglect for a spirit I had previously cherished for many years. Mission had been slightly pushed aside, in a subtle sort of way. But it is forefront in my life now! I can live what I to do with my life here, and that is really special. 
This place is a blessing. Please come see Weimar. Wei want you here. Wei have an amazing school. You can be a part of Weimar in many ways, but please, pray for us. Pray that we can be lights to those we meet and represent our religion of Christ attractively, as it really is.