oh oh we need each other.
so. something really great happened tonight. i mean... k maybe great isn't the right word... but it was awesome. i got a phone call from one of the guys from in my youth group who i've gotten to know during the past 2 summers. i've always thought he was an awesome, deep kid, but i really only knew certain parts of his life and his heart that he would let me in on.
but so tonight this guy called me and just like filled me in on so. much. of what's going on in his life right now. during the hour we talked he really put himself out there, which was awesome, and while i really wished i could have given him more advice, i loved that he called me. i was so honored that he felt comfortable enough with our relationship to be so honest and straight and i was almost excited (probably the wrong word...) that he chose me to call when there were definitly other people he could have called. it was really just so awesome to me that he trusted me enough to let me in on some really private things in his heart and that he thought that i whatever i had to say would help him out.
but gosh i feel so blessed by this relationship because i'm pretty positive that's how things in our society should be... older people giving advice to people who are just a little younger than them. there was nothing abosoluely fantastic about what i told this guy, but i really don't think that he would have heard whatever it was that i said, in the same way, from somebody a whole lot older than me... ya know? like, he's a senior in high school. he's a jock. he's probably not going to really listen to what a 30 year old woman or a 50 year old men tell him- even though they have so much wisdom to pass down. SO, what if every person (this is just a what if, but what if) every person, especially in our family that is the Church, was mentored by someone just a couple of years older than they were- someone just a little further along in life than them. what could happen if this was the case?
see, this kid most likely would not have taken the words i passed onto him from an older guy in the same way, but when i pass them along by making them sound like my words- by talking in a way that he'll hear it, he'll take it in, right?
this post has nothing to do with me or the guy i talked to tonight. but it totally and completely has to do with the 'what if' that is 'what if we all poured into someone who is going through the stage of life that we just graduated from?' how amazing would that be? what if...
so, i just want to encourage you, whoever you are, wherever you are in life, to find someone who is in the stage of life you just 'grew up from', and start to build a relationship with them... let that grow... and pour into them. be a blessing... ps it'll totally come back <3.
peace.
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and i love music... it's one of my favorite things... ever.
so here's another song that is great and totally applies here :)
we need each other by sanctus real http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPm1sk-utjQ
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