Brand New Start

Novemeber Camp 6-8

Service. The time to serve my brothers and sisters in the community is coming closer; as we fast and focus on living a christ-centered life. I've been asked to play a role in a skit of a young woman who's been left by a guy because she became pregnant with his baby. The young lady questions God and repents for what she has done. However, she feels alone. "How can I support this baby? At this young age? I cant do this by myself, Lord."
While playing this role of this young woman, I have to feel as if what happened to her was actually me. Feel her hurts, her loneliness, her regrets, her suffering, and her fears. As she asks the lord to forgive her, she is saved.

After being asked to play this role, I began to notice the young women that are my own age and just a few years older that carry a baby in their wombs. I ask myself how they felt about having a baby even before their marriage. What have their families said and thought about them? Did they just want to give up everything? We're they considering things such as abortion? And most of all, did they have faith in the lord. Today i realized something very important in my life. In this reinactment, I am playing my mother's role for when she held me in her womb before SHE was married. I can't imagine the sort of things she thought. During this skit, i'm imagining the sort of things SHE would say. How the man she thought she loved left her.

And for 14 years, she's been living as a single parent. She's stood strong, trying to raise me to be the best that i can be. She's always telling me that when i grow up and meet my real father, we would prove to him that my mother was the strongest person. And i would prove to him that he made a mistake to leave. He wouldn't change his ways for me. He was an addict and he wouldn't let anything stop him from his habits. Not even my birth. Not even my needs for nourishment and love and feeling of completeness. Now, at the age of 14, I stand strong with faith in my sould. With love for the lord knowing he didn't let my mother fall. Knowing He loved me so he kept me in this world. My heart beats with life because of the lord. He spoke to my mother and said "You can do this. I am with you. You are not alone."

I hope that for this camp, I give out a very strong message for the sisters. Trust in the lord. Ask for his forgiveness and trust in his plan. He will never give you anything that you can't handle.