inspiration
March 5, 2008
yesterday i had my first alone time with the two girls from youth impact that i’m going to be discipling. i was pretty nervous, to say the least. they have some behavioral issues most of the time, and i was taking them to a friend’s house to bake cookies; i was worried that they would be disrespectful, that they would think baking/decorating cookies was lame, that they wouldn’t want to hang out with me…i was just worried in general. i hope God was more amused than frustrated with my worries, because they were pretty inconsequential and stupid. yesterday ended up being amazing. leondra and mikala were the best behaved i think they have ever been, they respected matt’s house, they loved baking cookies and were beautifully creative with decorating them. we laughed, and played, and all my fears were shown to be a waste of thought. on top of it all, they wanted to hang out later this week, and next week, and the week after, etc.
last week 6 apartments in the complex i pick kids up from for youth impact were completely destroyed by fire, along with all the things in them. 6 more apartments were ruined from smoke. all 12 have to be torn down. the families that live there are left with no where to live, and the 6 families who lost everything are struggling to survive. one of the families who lost everything has three boys in youth impact. the oldest boy saved his parents’ lives by getting them out of the smoking apartment before it burned completely. they are left with only the clothes on their backs, and no where to live. living paycheck to paycheck, trying to make ends meet, and then they’re dealt a blow of unimaginable magnitude. this week i saw members of the community band together to help these families, and it gave me hope that the whole world is not consumed with apathy.
the past few weeks have been a bit of a dry spell for me, as evidenced by the absence of any new thoughts. today i am inspired to write of God’s faithfulness, awe in His creation, both of the world and of two beautiful young girls, the bravery he gives His children, and the compassion he tries to teach us.
