Love Has Called

Today, September 12, 2009. 4 days till Interns start.... I sit as I write this, in my new home. A home that God provided, my youth Pastor found, and that I love. I listen as my new sisters run around upstairs, and as the dog barks at them because she wants to join in. I sit and think "can this really all be happening?" Could I at 22 years old be thrust into an environment with two crazy sisters, and amazing parents? After having already "grown up" with my parents? Could I at 22 have a curfew? Have to ask permission to go out again, and make sure that I'm home in time for dinner, and be setting a good example for a 10 and 12 year old who watch my every move? It feels so wierd, and yet so natural. After 12 days, I already feel like they are my family. I feel attatched. I don't know what I would do without them. I will fight for them.

I don't know how it will happen, what the year will look like, how many times I will want to quit, how many times I cry or how many times frusteration will over take me. But I know this. I love the Lord, my Church, my leadership, and I long to see a generation changed. And I don't know a better place to start. Than in a class room, with 6 people that I don't really know, and 9 months of intense discipleship. I think about my two sisters who will soon be involved with youth, going to highschool, and growing up. It's worth fighting for. It's worth balling my eyes out on the floor, it's worth being so frusterated with life, doing fundraisers in the rain,it's all worth it. Because if we don't fight for the next generation, and for our generation than who will? If I don't fight for my sisters, than who will? If I don't prove to them that there is more to life than the boy that dumped water on them at lunch, or the friend that is talking about them behind their back, and that you don't have to dress that way, or look that way to be popular. That when the world turns its back on them, I won't. That they are beautiful, inside and out. That through it all, they are WORTH it. They are worth it all, the tears, and frusteration, the fight. Because someone once fought for me. Someone took the time, and proved to me that I was worth it. I will do the same for them.


1 Corinthians 13:7 " Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance"