Trapped in a House with 21 Strangers

January has been a month of “waiting” around for a new semester of CGA to start.

The 29th, exactly one week ago, 21 new CGA apprentices came to join the eight of us returning for the start of a new semester. 

FINALLY.

Except that “finally” came with a bit of dread in my heart. 

I’ll be honest. I’ve had a hard time of letting go of last semester. It was hard, but it was so, SO good. But with the end of the semester, came saying good-bye to a lot of people. 

People who I grew closer to in three months than I ever could have imagined.

With the reality of new people arriving, came the hard choice of finally releasing the old semester. 

Friday, the new apprentices arrived. Saturday, my new roommates and I spent the day together getting to know one another. Monday, all 29 of us had our electronics taken away and were put together in a house….mansion, really, and spent the next four days bonding, playing games, getting to know one another, processing, and hanging out. 

I thought I would hate it, being cooped up in a place with so many other people, unable to leave. [This girl needs her alone time and I’m not afraid to admit it.]

But I didn’t. I kind of liked it. In fact, I actually really loved it. And I really love all of them.

UNITY. 

That’s what we walked out with as we left this morning. We walked in as 29 individual people and walked away as one connected group.

Ready to live life together. Ready to support one another through thick and thin. And ready to go forward into whatever God has for us these next three months.