Something about being away from God and not taking the time to pray and have casual conversations with Him is so draining. During the school year I was part of the Involvement Team ministry team with Campus Ministry, and we met every Monday night to spend some time in fellowship with God. While church on Sundays and Wednesdays was important to me, I felt the most rejuvinated and prepared for what was to come in the next week after the meetings with Involvement Team. We had grown so close together that the people that came on a regular basis became family and we leaned on each other for prayer and support and good times. At each meeting it was evident that God had been there with us. Some nights all we did was meditate and write down or share our deepest thoughts and prayers, but just spending that time in quiet with each other was so powerful and refreshing that it would have been impossible to deny the pressence of God.
Involvement Team gave me a home. I no longer had my high school youth group or drama group (From the Heart) to call my home and have those group moments with. I am so thankful for the leadership in that team and all of those that I had the opportunity to share those times with. Most incoming freshman don't find a close knit Christian group to call their family within that first year of college, but I was blessed enough to have found it, and that group will always provide a feeling of family and home for me and many others.