A Matter of Life and Death
Most people view me as a positive person. "Dave, the friendly, outgoing guy." Some people who know me don't know that this has not always been the case. In fact, at one point I was quite the opposite. tou gh questions i never though i'd ask I had a hard time adjusting to college. Why? Well, it was my first major life change. I grew up in the same house, at the same church, and with the same high school classmates. Everyone knew me. I know how things around me worked. I was confident in who I was...until I moved to Chicago. I was excited to start off with a blank slate, but it turned out to be much harder than I expected. I was used to being a big fish in a small pond....but I got thrown in the ocean with a bunch of other big fish. It was a bit of a shock, and I didn't have the safety nets around me that I was used to. I got placed into a peculiar group of people. My roommate, my neighbors, my ministry partners...well, they all were asking some tough que