Encourage

I read this today and wanted to share it as an encouragement to everyone!

Right now at this very minute, someone is very proud of you. Someone is thinking of you. Someone cares about you. Someone misses you. Someone wants to talk to you. Someone wants to be with you. Someone hopes you aren’t in trouble. Someone wants to hold your hand. Someone wants you to be happy just for you. Someone thinks you are a gift. Someone wants to hug you. Someone loves you. Someone admires your strength. Someone is thinking of you and smiling. Someone wants to be on your shoulder to cry on. Someone thinks the world of you. Someone wants to protect you. Someone would do anything for you. Someone wants to be forgiven. Someone is grateful for your forgiveness. Someone wants to laugh with you about old times. Someone remembers you and wishes you were there. Someone needs to know that your love is unconditional. Someone wants to tell you how much they care. Someone wants to share their dreams with you. Someone wants to hold you in their arms. Someone wants YOU to hold them in your arms. Someone treasures your spirit. Someone wishes she/he could STOP time because of you. Someone loves you for who you are. Someone wants to be with you. Someone hears a song that reminds her/him of you. Someone is glad that you’re her/his only true love. Someone wants to be your friend. Someone stayed up all night thinking about you. Someone is alive because of you. Someone believes that you are their soul mate. Someone wants to be near you. Someone misses your guidance and advice. Someone values your guidance and advice. Someone has faith in you. Someone trusts you. Someone needs you to send them this letter. Someone needs your support. Someone needs you to have faith in them. Someone needs you to let them be your friend. Someone will cry when they read this. Cause that’s what life’s all about. Its about the times where you lay in the grass next to someone you love. Its about the color of the sky, its about a roaring fire on a winter night. Everybody hurts, everyone bleeds, everyone laughs and smiles and loves. And that’s all that is. There’s no meaning of life, its nothing that can be defined, it’s a matter of writing your own definition.

I love to encourage people and I hope you found this encouraging!(:

Mission Year

I was recently asked by my youth pastor at my church back home to write a little thing about what I've learned in Mission Year and how is has changed me for people considering doing it. So, I decided I would share with you all that!

Mission Year has been the best experience of my life. I used to be scared to do anything, such as go to the gas station or the store by myself. Now I've gone to Philadelphia by myself! Being in Mission Year, I've learned to step out of my comfort zone and do things that make me “comfortably uncomfortable”. Everyone here is a great support system and they push me to do things to help me grow. Living a lifestyle that 100% focuses on loving God and loving people every day has made me grow tremendously in my relationship with Christ. Taking a year off of school and devoting it to spend with God takes a lot of trust and faith. I've never had so much faith in my life and it’s so awesome seeing how God is working and moving in my life. I wasn't in the best place with God when I started Mission Year; failing to read my bible, being “too busy” to pray, and just plain ignoring God. Mission Year has changed me in that way so much and I’m SO grateful. I now find any way I can to pray for people and encourage people with bible verses. God has shown me so many things in the past 7ish months since being in Mission Year that I don’t know how I could have possibly ignored Him before. I’m saying it because it’s all truth and from my heart not just to make Mission Year look like it is better than anything else. This has been THE BEST experience I have EVER had and I’m so excited to see where God is going to lead me in these last 4 months of being in Philadelphia!