My Simple, Happy, Beautiful Life

I have been reflecting on this idea of change frequently. I know that I have posted about change occasionally in my blog, but it is a constant process. Things around us are changing or we might be in the process of changing. If I have learned one thing since I graduated high school, I have learned to expect change. Since I have started my program, I have felt myself change. I am still me. I still have similar interests. I still love the things that I did before. I have a different schedule now though. That means, I don't stay up late like I did before. In my free time, I do different things. I have different priorities. I care more about social issues. I am more aware of the "isms' (racism, sexism...) around me. My goals are changing. My conversations with friends are changing.  The problem with change is sometimes you change while your environment remains the same. Do you know what I mean? For example, I feel like I am changing but I feel like my friends around me...

I am so grateful for my education that I received at BYU. As I have reflected on my experiences since I have stated my masters program at Sacramento State, I have realized all the valuable lessons I learned there. One of the most important lessons is that all truth comes from one source. Truth comes from a loving Heavenly Father who values our education. As some people know before most classes at BYU, we pray to invite the spirit to help us in our learning process. Because of the incorporation of the spirit, we combine secular and spiritual knowledge. It was a repeated occasion that I would walk away from a lecture with both spiritual insights and knowledge concerning my major. I took this for granted since it was almost a daily occasion. Now that I attend a state school where my religious beliefs are not connected within secular knowledge, I miss the opportunity to vocalize how my secular knowledge connects with my religious beliefs. I try to find connections between the two and s...