God is . . cool

I’ve had such an amazing weekend. All the Interns lead a Retreat called Discipleship Now. Discipleship Now is different from other retreats because the youth don’t go away. Church Members volunteer to host certain groups of the youth in their homes. Ashley King & I lead the High School Girls. There was 7 of them. 

King & I were supposed to do 5 sessions with the girl’s but only got around to doing 3.  We spent a lot of time just getting to know the girls, all the girls attend the youth group pretty regularly so it was more deepening the relationship.

The thing I really want to write about is on Saturday night after a session on how much God love’s us. The speaker came up and spoke to our girls and said that the lie that Satan uses the most is “That we are the only one struggling with (whatever we are going through).” So, we took the example that Driver gave us a couple of Monday nights ago where we prayed for each other. We asked the girls to open up and share their what they are struggling with, with us and their friends.  King & I went first, to show them that we were struggling as well.

The girls really opened up and shared things that they were struggling with.  This morning there was a rap-up and one of the girls said that “I found out something about my best friend that I never knew.” 

Now, I absolutely love those girls. Last night hearing them say what they are struggling with, and going through and seeing the tear fall down there face just broke my heart. I cried for them, with them, more than once. I am really looking forward to getting to know these girls better. I think that they really trust us, and that we learned as much from them as they did from us.

I am actually, now, very sad to go to New York City this weekend because I will not get to see these wonderful girls on Sunday Morning at church.