Hello Lads and Lasses! It's been awhile since my last post on this here blog so, I said to myself, I said "Self......lets get back to the blogging scene." I am most definitely going to be doing that in this here post. Today, I feel obligated to talk about our community, and no not like our town community like Wells, Blue Earth, Winnebago, Elmore, blah blah blah, Walters-Kiester Area, etc. I mean your community of people that you can fully trust in and share the same beliefs/ideals with, the people in your life that you could open-up and be your complete self with. For me, I have many "communities," I have my TEC Community, those I can turn to with my faith and confide in, and my youth-group those I can turn to in time of talking to or heck even times I just need someone. I want to talk about my youth group first of all. It's a group of people from different walks of life, from different diversities, from different groups of friends, that come together and discuss our lives and then relate that to God. It's not like a blood-brothers for life kinda deal where because you show-up for one you now obligated to come to all, it should be a thing that excites you, that helps you cope with the weekly struggles, and it helps you through our hectic as well as sometimes drama filled lives for some. Another thing that struck me is that high-school students like myself have a tendancy to care waaaaaaaayyyyyyy tooo much about what others AKA their peers think about them. It's a normal thing to feel in high-school trust me, I've been there done that, but you can not let how other people think of you define who you are now......"People don't think about you as much as you think they do." That quote pretty much sums that issue up in my mind, that's why I try, that doesnt mean I always do, to not care what people think about me. If your "so called friends" think you are wierd for going to youth group or going to a church retreat or even going to church period then they probably dont matter very much. This post has gotten way off the topic that I wanted it to be about, which was to get a Christian community that you can confide in about your faith and about life in general. To have a safety-network of friends that are there always praying and always there to support you in your endeavors of your life is really nice to have, it give you that extra support system that "I got your back" feeling. Anyway, so this is me encouraging all who read this that have not found that community of peers that you can trust and confide in to do so, because it is always a great thing to have in our confusing and sometimes overwhelming lives. I want to end this post with a quote from an unknown author....."Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” This community, no matter it be TEC or your youth group, cares enough about you to sit and listen to what you think and what you feel.....and help you break down those insecurities and walls you put around your true selves. Some people care, just let those people in and let the real love and magic happen.
Amen
