Fall Tour + Homecoming

This past week was a rush! Because all of Singers got to skip their Wednesday and Thursday classes to go on their fall tour, and because the class that I skipped on Thursday I would have had to take my second exam in. WHOO! Make-up exam, how you doin?
Anywho, this fall tour of ours, that Singers does every year, has been something extraordinary this year. I don't know if it's something in the water they handed out on the bus or if we're just that good, but we've never been so consistent as a choir during our first 5 performances. Especially not with hours of cramping on the bus rides and crappy acoustics in auditoriums. BUT WE WERE SO GOOD. I understand that I am biased, but still. To have have Dr. Meaders say something about it more than once, it means something.
Our homecoming concert is today at 130 -come- and I'm legitimately excited for really only 2 things (and it's about to get music-major nerdy up in here): one, for all of the MC music faculty to hear us for the first time! And for us to sing with intensity at a pianissimo dynamic. During rehearsal yesterday we started playing around and experimenting with that and y'all, it's so dang good.
Enough of that.
God these days has been more than amazing. That's kind of His norm though, isn't it? Haha I'll elaborate.
Take for example: my leaving last year. Whether I was coming back or not, I hardly had any solid friends left; I had severed numerous ties and broken numerous hearts that I knew it was going to be something I'd have to live with wherever I went.
Plot twist. Coming back to MC. And while the friendship thing is still a semi difficult process, the friends I stayed in contact with over the past year are some of closest friends in the world. The relationships that had been broken are starting to resurface and become incredibly fun and brand new friendships that I never thought would be possible. And the relationships that I've lost for good, God has given me a peace about them saying, "Trust me that I'm going to give you something better." That is NOT an easy thing to accept all the time, but I have no choice but to trust it. Friendships these days are just unexpected and not what I would have chosen, but now I can't imagine having it any other way. Thanks, God. You're the best!