its certainly been a while,
a month or so at least.
I have to say I feel like part of my world is caving in all the time and it is so tiring, I don’t even know what to feel at times. I been feeling frustrated, angry, tired, joyous, frustrated, hopeful, disappointed.
I think you get the idea.
The reason why I have this picture here is, not because i like kyra, because i don’t as she already knows but rather,
on the last day of leadership broward,
we were given the opportunity to acknowledge someone who changed our experience there. And I was sitting there trying to think of all of these people, but when it all boiled down to it, although so many of the people around me were so awesome, one person, Solomiya really changed my experience when we had our first conversation at the opening retreat.
so it started with hello,
and hasn’t ended yet.
I truly was surprised with all of creativity, kindness and interestingness that was hidden behind a face i didn’t know.
I mean how many things in life are like this?
How awesome is life? Just look at the environment leaves many of us taken aback when we take steps outside of our concrete jungles.
How often do we choose the other road, the one where I don’t say hello to solomiya, because we don’t feel comfortable.
How many times do we let our fears or a medley of all the things we think will happen hinder us?
All of these ideas that we think that we perceive are nothing more than unwarranted phobias that ruin the beauty and effect of a simple hello.
Theres a song by the rocket summer called Never knew, and to be honest it has never meant more to me before this week,
“I just ran into a few someones today,
someones that I never really knew,
I used to think that I had them all so figured out,
No, none of its true,
Cuz I never knew you,
And now the truth of it is,
I want to be like you.
So hello, good friend, I want to be next to you.”
- The Rocket Summer, Never Knew
Just Wednesday night after church, I was sitting in the car with Alessandra, listening to her tell me that I had changed her world. That in asking her to come with me to church, I changed her world drastically. But I guess I never really took her 100 percent seriously until Wednesday when she told me about her co-worker that came to church with her a few weeks ago.
So her coworker attended church with her, and at the end they went to the girls ministry at my church. While they were there, Summer told the girls to split up in groups of two and tell the other person about their Jesus story. So Ali being ali, went first and told her co-worker her story about how Jesus had affected her, how she accepted him and how radically different her life is now.
So then Ali looked at her, and said “Your turn”.
And with that the other girl burst into tears.
She said she didn’t have a Jesus story and she hasn’t had one ever and all of this stuff.
Keep in mind Ali is telling me this story while I’m in the car, so I’m looking at her and then she told me that during that time “He[God] just took over”
With her initial hello and invite to church, Ali opened up something beyond anything she could have imagined. The same goes for me, when I met Ali, I was just trying to impress Caroline.
God works in mysterious ways, dont ever forget that.
So, I dare you to say, “Hello Good Friend, I want to be next to you” and truly mean it. I dare you to throw your fears out of the door, out the window and out of sight and say hello, you might just find exactly what God has left for you.
