"THE BEST WEEK OF YOUR LIFE OR YOUR MONEY BACK"
It's what we tell kids, it's what is written on their flyers & on the Facebook page. We tweet it over & over again.
"THE BEST WEEK OF YOUR LIFE"
And no one that I'm aware of has ever asked for their money back!
I went on one of these trips as an upcoming high school senior & my life did change.
Since then, I have been on too many week long & weekend camp trips to count.
But this past weekend, this one trumped them all.
*cue watery eyes*
I have been friends with some girls ever since the first week of their freshman year.
Four years have flown by & I didn't really know if anyone got it.
Maybe a couple, but not completely.
I thought maybe I had been doing something wrong.
That I had been too much of a friend & not enough of a messenger.
Perhaps they hadn't taken me seriously or didn't want anything at all to do with Christ.
Sometimes they seemed so distant that I gave up hope.
But my Lord prevailed.
Boy did he show me.
Hannah, my partner leader, & I prayed so hard for this weekend as it would be our last with these girls.
We knew it would be emotional for them here at the end, but we were not prepared for what happened.
The outpouring of love, the honesty, the open hearts, the questions, the real feelings...the sweet thank yous...
My life is complete.
I walked away from this weekend knowing that I could die happy.
My friends were listening!
They had been listening all along!
They know us a believers & they see the difference & they want Jesus in their lives.
I'm so sorry if it sounds like I am celebrating myself.
I am not in my heart at all.
I am celebrating the fact that Christ is true.
That he has never let me down.
That he has been with me through all the tough things over the last 5 years & that his plan for me really is what is best.
The lives that I thought were unreachable have been completely changed & it is all thanks to him.
Sometimes people that don't understand a lot about Young Life ask me if I am seeing "results".
I hate that question.
We aren't going around polling kids as to what their heart feels like.
There is no ruler on which we measure their growth in Christ.
Often times, no one ever knows what kind of impact that sharing their faith with someone else can have.
But I got to!
And I am so very thankful.
My sweet friends will graduate this year & I am going to be totally lost without them.
They are the best thing that has ever happened to me & I love them all with my whole heart.
Which is NOTHING compared to how much Christ loves them.
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