******* REVIVAL FIRE!!! *******
Honest nights are a dime a dozen but broken people are always a constant.
Last night (thursday night) was a beautiful blend of both.
Last night at the club i had the priviledge of having a conversation with a girl and hear her story. Her story was that of pain, addiction, but most of all it was about hope. I aked if she would allow her story to be told. And she agreed saying that it would be fine...something I did not expect...So I will tell her story humbily and in respect for her story, because her story matters.
I sat in patiebce and love as I listened to her tell her story.
She told me of the pressure she had walked in, of how she felt like everyone never saw the tru side of her. She was a strong girl and made a strong effort to appear so but she told me that that heaviness...that because she was expected to preform a certain way..she had fallin into addiction. She then began to tell me of how infront of her entire youth group during a "confession night" she stood before all of her friends and said that she was more than she appeared and that she struggled with pain and addiction and that she had attempted suicide two nights before. She told me that after that moment she turned her back on addiction and that the "coming down" has been hard but that she is perservering. As she ended her story she wiped away tears and recounted instances in which there had been bad days.
What you need to know is...this girl was not some black clthes wearing tatooed up perced up crazy haired wearing rocker chick. She was a normal girl down to her blonde ponytail. She was easily the prettiest girl in the room and yet she had dealt with so much...things we stereotype to crazy looking teenagers.
I looked at her and began to tell her that her story mattered and that SHE mattered. I told her that I understood that her pain was real and that I was not scared of her pain because I had experienced the same realness of pain as she had and that Jesus took that pain upon himself for me. I told her that she was meant to be loved...that I loved her and so did Jesus. I told her that she was made to be clothed in white dresses and adorn silver crowns of jewels because she was Princess and she was Royalty. I told her that what she experienced what she had overcome and that her dreams and passions...those things matter. But most of all i told her "Know that you are loved and that you matter" I told her that there will be hard days, days where it is difficult to smile, but that in those days remember that she is loved and that those days will pass.
By the end she was wiping back tears...holding my hand and thanking me. I reminded her of her royalty and gave her my contact info with a promise of always being on the other side of that phone, morning noon or night. We then hugged and she went on her way home.
After everyone had left one of the leaders in the prophetic room said "Man that girl, she is broken...she is messed up."
I thought to my self and this is my challenge to everyone
"yes this is very true...but what are you truely gonna do to help?"
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