Awake My Soul

So this weekend I literally got only 5 hours of sleep.  Yeah, I’m dead serious.  On Friday night I got 3 hours and on Saturday night I got 2 hours (thanks a lot time change).  It wasn’t exactly my fault because I went on only the best church retreat you could ever go on: AWAKENING!!!  I’m not going to go into too many details, just because it would take too incredibly long, but I will describe how it made me feel.  

This was the second retreat that I have been on since I got here and both have been nothing short of incredible.  Whenever it is time to drive back to campus once the retreat is over, I literally feel as if I need to be dragged back kicking and screaming.  It is so depressing to have to come back to the reality that is life when you feel as if you have all you would ever need being around others that share the same love for God that you have.  There were around 40 of us all stuck in the same cabin for a whole weekend.  It was really nice to be able to just relax, talk, and be away from the stress of college and real life.  One thing that was pretty sweet was that the only real “meal” we had was chili.  The rest of the food consisted of soda, chocolate, nutella, cheese puffs, and any other type of junk food imaginable.  I got so little sleep because we hardly had any time to complete any of our activities.  If I had gone one more day on such little sleep, I probably would have had to have been hospitalized for exhaustion and dehydration.  But all in all, it was an amazing weekend full of many spiritual highs.  I do not regret going one bit….even though I just got done taking a 9 chapter stats test that I wasn’t able to study for over the weekend.