a couple days ago, i took one of my wydlife girls out to lunch, and she cbay and i all just chatted and laughed until we got down to the real reason we were there. obviously we love each other, but it came down to us talking to her about her sport, gymnastics. this girl is good, and i mean GOOD. she spends roughly 4 hours a day at the gym, 6 days a week, and is in a ridiculously high level. and me and cbay were telling her all we could, talking about where her true identity is found, and how her worth is not in gymnastics, and it ended in tears. we aren't sure what she's planning on doing, because she came to us to wondering what she should do when the sport that has been so much of her life for so long doesn't make her happy. after we dropped her off, me and cbay talked about how much we wanted to give her an answer, and yet there was nothing we could do about it. we didn't have the answer. and that got me thinking...
i have the answer. one word: Christ. and that to me means hope. because this world is going to let my girls down a lot, and i was reminded that the only answer i can give them, the only hope i can give them in this world is Christ. that's my job. i think i used to be caught up in loving them and them loving me, but that's not it. it's my showing them Christ's love, and them loving Christ. and i think that's beautiful, because even i will let them down. i leave home in 6 months, and i'm leaving behind girls that could change our world, i mean it. and it breaks my heart to leave them, but if i've let the Lord work through me like i desire, hopefully i've been a chapter in their lives that they will never forget.
i can't wrap my head around the love Christ has shown me through these girls.
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