School starts today, and I'm so excited. I may be alone in that, but oh well. I feel like I need some sort of routine in my life, and school gives me that routine. Don't get me wrong, summer can be great. But, it can be so boring.

In honor of school starting and the fact that I'm an English major, I want to share a poem I wrote in October of last year. It's not based on my life necessarily then or now, but I feel like it's something that everyone has felt before.

"Words were said and tears were shed as she tried to live a life that seemed to give her but only strife. What she saw in people and wanted to see in people were of two different worlds. Her friends gleamed about events to come and acted as though their hearts beat to the same drum. But she came to find what she wanted to see had made her blind. Made her blind to all of the lies and fake concern. She was just another turn in their bridge to burn. She was no friend to them. No close friend. No true friend. No friend at all. Simple talk became distancing clocks, time ticking against her while counting all her faults. She was a different girl but still felt like she was one of them. But what she felt wasn't true. The walk she walked was by herself and one she barely knew. This new world, this new shame was something she didn't know how to experience. She didn't know how to feel or what to feel. The only thing she knew was betrayal. It's not that her 'friends' realized what they did. They, too, thought they were what she saw. It wasn't until her fall that they really knew at all. She lived in a world all her own, but that didn't matter if she was alone."

At some point, we've all felt alone. There may be tons of people around, but you can still feel so alone. Nobody's alone in that feeling. In fact, you're never alone at all-- in any sense. You may feel that way, but you're not.

So, in light of the new school year, remember this verse. You are never alone; God is with you. You may feel like your friends have betrayed you or you may have distanced yourself without realizing it, but God will never leave or forsake you. He is here to stay. You don't have to face this life on your own. With everything comes a time and a season, and loneliness/feeling alone is just that. It'll pass, and a new season will come.

Make this 2016-2017 school year the best yet. Praise Him. Love Him. Seek Him.