A Vat of Wine

We start the day with chapel almost every school day and today was no different. However, Don Cartledge had not been expecting to have to speak because we were supposed to have a speaker scheduled. I guess she had called and rescheduled for tomorrow, but he started looking through his Bible and you could tell he wasn't as prepared as he normally liked.

He got up and explained the situation then began to talk about a new book he's reading. I forgot the title but it's something about servitude and sounded like an interesting read. He shared some quotes, then started talking about how the semester is coming to an end and how soon we won't be the newbees anymore. There will be new students in January and we will be considered the veterns, to which I quickly turned to another couple that's been here since January of this year and will be here until April and asked, "What's that make you?" Tia Maria, as Katie affectionately coined her, replied, "Ancient." She makes me laugh.

Anyhow, Don continued and said that one time while he was in Italy, I believe, he saw these huge vats of wine. The guy he was with said that if you drop even one drop of vinegar in the entire vat of wine it would change the entire composition of the entire vat into vinegar. One drop would make the entire difference. Then he said that we make the atmosphere. If there is even one person who starts the negativity then the whole group follows suite and it ruins the whole experience. It was interesting because I have noticed that we have had such a great group and have all pretty much had good attitudes. This may be because we're such a small group of only 16, but still it's great. He said that we're probably going to double in size. I'm really excited about that, but at the same time, the shoe is going to be stretched. Right now it's really comfortable. I can't wait to see who God is bringing into our group though. It'll be awesome!