I really did not want to do Raleigh Fellows, or any Fellows program for that matter. I’m here though a month into the program and each day it gets more difficult for me to side with my mindset from just a few months ago leading up to my month here.
So how did I end up here? A question I am still asking. I have some pretty great friends that know and love me well. I was very resistant to the idea of Fellows or any kind of program, but they insisted I at least look into it. I was very reluctant in doing so, but I knew I had to trust my friends. After many conversations and interviews, I decided on Raleigh.
Two years after graduating from college, I find myself in a program that I didn’t want to do, in a city that I never felt anything for, and a group of people that I’m so stoked to be with.
Coming to Fellows was never what I wanted, I’ve been out of school two years and I thought I needed something else, but Jesus has provided a really great opportunity for me and I am laughing at myself for not wanting this and thinking that it wasn’t for me. I think I was a little scared of making this big step of moving and living here, but Jesus encourages us to step out onto the water with him, to trust him.
Thankful for all my new and old friends, that encourage me to take steps toward something better and thankful for Jesus, without you I don’t know what I’d do. So yea I ended up here.
-Dyl