don't worry, just believe

woah. that is the word i would choose to describe the past 6 hours of my life. i am now officially a young life leader at Graham High School!! but let's find out how i got here....

well, all of the new leaders went to dinner at octagon (naturally) then went to all county club! that was so great!! seeing the high schoolers was amazing and all of the leaders did such a great job leading it! after that we had a long prayer for the new leaders... that was so amazing to me. to know that all of those people cared so much and loved us so much.. i cried (typical). after the serious god stuff we moved on to the fun stuff!!! they blindfolded us! (now if you know me you know i like to see what is happening. so the first few minutes i had the blindfold on i actually thought i was going to pass out) then, while blindfolded, we were put into cars then driven to our school (with the weirdest music i've EVER heard playing) when we took off the blindfold and learned we were at graham we were all so happy!!! i keep saying we but y'all don't know who "we" are SO "we" are myself, katy steele and matt carter!! two of the most amazing people i know! to have the privilege to lead with them is amazing!! after we found out what high school we were at everyone went back to the y for a little celebration (i'm still finding bits of confetti in my hair and clothes) then had a little friendly competition, a kickball game. it was graham and williams (devil dogs) vs. western. naturally the devil dogs won.

now, this is such an amazing opportunity but amazingly scary at the same time! i mean i'm going into a cafeteria full of high school students that don't know me and i don't know... scary stuff. anyway, i've learned that i just need to trust the lord and stop worrying so much! tonight at all county club andrew, our area director, gave the club talk and used the story about the woman touching jesus. now in this story, a woman who has been bleeding for 12 years touches jesus while walking in a crowd. out of everyone pushing into him he feels her touch and asks who touched him. she comes forward and tells him her life story and she is healed. (coolest thing ever). but as this is happening jesus is on his way to heal a little 12 year old girl whom is dying. the father of the daughter is freaking out because jesus is now healing someone else! but jesus says to the father, "don't worry, just believe." WOAH.

first of all, how may of you would actually just believe? it's hard. we, as humans, worry. i know i worry a lot. so having that scripture read tonight was truly a blessing.  i just have to say in my head, "sydney, don't worry, just believe" throughout this whole process i will be relying on christ for my every action and every word so those words are SO important to me.  they aren't always easy to do but we all need to put more effort into just believing.... i'm pretty sure that's called faith.