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Day 2 - Community
When we seek to integrate ourselves into a new community, we can become anxious and unsettled. Surrounded by so many new things, how do we find the path that is right for us? Back home, we felt familiar in long-established relationships and a personal identity developed over time. What happens now that we are on our own? As someone who found them self in the same situation not too long ago: something beautiful. Something truly beautiful happens when we are given the freedom to start fresh in a new place, surrounded by new people. Our community shapes us, and just as your hometown roots made
you into the person you are today, the Belmont community you are joining has the propensity to grow you in ways beyond
imagination.
We begin with the knowledge that we are not alone. We are all brothers and sisters in Christ, and here in the college environment, we all understand what it feels like to be new. As a freshman class, you are experiencing this altogether. You may come from different states, different circumstances, even from different faiths. But you have more in common than you know. Hold onto each other and lift each other up as you strive to find yourselves a home in Belmont’s community. Use love to guide your interactions, and allow people to surprise and inspire you with their story.
1 Peter 4:9 tells us to “offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.” In doing so, you will build yourself a support system out of those you develop hospitable relationships with. Better yet, you will become a support system for those that you come to care the most about. Alone we are weak, but together, we are a force to be reckoned with. As you embark on this first year journey, I encourage you to embody that maxim.
Be confident in your faithful identity and what that means to you as you begin your grand college adventure. You shape your community as much as it shapes you.
SAMANTHA HUBNER | RA, Senior | Political Science Major with Minors in Chinese and French in the Honors Program
When we seek to integrate ourselves into a new community, we can become anxious and unsettled. Surrounded by so many new things, how do we find the path that is right for us? Back home, we felt familiar in long-established relationships and a personal identity developed over time. What happens now that we are on our own? As someone who found them self in the same situation not too long ago: something beautiful. Something truly beautiful happens when we are given the freedom to start fresh in a new place, surrounded by new people. Our community shapes us, and just as your hometown roots made
you into the person you are today, the Belmont community you are joining has the propensity to grow you in ways beyond
imagination.
We begin with the knowledge that we are not alone. We are all brothers and sisters in Christ, and here in the college environment, we all understand what it feels like to be new. As a freshman class, you are experiencing this altogether. You may come from different states, different circumstances, even from different faiths. But you have more in common than you know. Hold onto each other and lift each other up as you strive to find yourselves a home in Belmont’s community. Use love to guide your interactions, and allow people to surprise and inspire you with their story.
1 Peter 4:9 tells us to “offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.” In doing so, you will build yourself a support system out of those you develop hospitable relationships with. Better yet, you will become a support system for those that you come to care the most about. Alone we are weak, but together, we are a force to be reckoned with. As you embark on this first year journey, I encourage you to embody that maxim.
Be confident in your faithful identity and what that means to you as you begin your grand college adventure. You shape your community as much as it shapes you.
SAMANTHA HUBNER | RA, Senior | Political Science Major with Minors in Chinese and French in the Honors Program
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About this Plan
This 40 day prayer plan was written by students, faculty and staff at Belmont University as a daily devotional for incoming freshmen. Each day guides and encourages new college students in their faith in Jesus Christ through the word of God and the sincere thoughts, seasoned advice and honest prayers of the contributing authors. May these words help you grow in your love for God and your love for others!
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