Thanksgiving

DeShawn Clement

Greenville, SC

Freshman

With Thanksgiving approaching, students were asked to reflect on what they are most thankful for this year.

Things that I'm thankful for are:

1. God's love: God's love is what held him to the cross. He died for us. He sent his ONLY begotton son for us sinners. If that's not love, I'm not sure what is. God shows us love and expects us to show love to others as he showed us. Love one another. Love your brother. Love your enemies. Love your neighbor. Love is mentioned several times in His word.

2. My faith: My faith is what allows me to trust and believe in the Lord. God tells us all we must do is have faith the size of a mustard seed. Faith is believing and trusting in Jesus Christ. If you truly believe and trust in the Lord, He will be by your side.

3.God's grace: Grace is getting something we don't deserve. Because we are sinners, we don't deserve grace. We sin against God and strictly disobey God, but thankfully, this leads to #4.

4. God's forgiveness: God forgives us no matter what. When God forgives us, it gives us a chance to fix what we have done. God gives us a set of rules to follow, and that's in His word. If we disobey, we must repent. God says that we must also forgive others as our father forgives us. You gotta love the Lord.

5. God's sovereignty: God controls all. He knows all.

6. God's mercy: Wow, mercy. God shows mercy through forgiveness and grace.

7. The Bible: The Bible has all that we may need. God gave us His word to help us navigate through life and to help us find the answers we need.

8. Gods Truth- The truth that he stores upon us in life and His word.

The Special Olympics - In God's Image

DeShawn Clement
Greenville, SC
Freshman

DeShawn volunteers on a regular basis with Special Olympics. The blog below is a reflection on a recent volunteer experience.

O, what another great blessing to be awake to see all of God's creation. Today has been a great day, and tommorrow will be an even greater day. I'm working with Special Olympics. It is a blessing to see what God has created and to cherish it and love it. I see these kids from all over the state and how people judge them or better yet, tell them what they are and are not capable of, but in reality they are probably more capable of doing things than we "normys" are capable of. They just have a different way of doing it. I have learned that in God's eyes He sees us all the same. God loves no matter what, and we should as well. I'm so fortunate in so many ways, but it brings me back to Genesis where we find that we were all created in Gods image! What a great god we have.