During my last year of high-school (Shout Out to Vancouver Christian Secondary School 😃 ), my friend Kim and I volunteered to be on the Yearbook Committee. Okay. We WERE the Yearbook Committee (It was a pretty small school)
The Graduating Class that year, which we were a part of (Shout out to 1985! 😃) (Oops❗️🙊 Accidentally outed my age on the internet again)
we all needed to write a short blurb to have put next to our Grad Photos. We were all given a couple of months to think of something to say.
What did our years at our school mean to us? 🤔
What were we grateful for? 🤔
Who did we wish to single out and Thank? 🤔
What were our goals for the future? 🤔
You get the idea.
But as the deadline was approaching, we had to start tracking our fellow classmates down. What started out as reminding people turned into nagging them, then turned into hounding them and ultimately turned into THREATENING them. 🔪🪓
Time eventually ran out but Kim and I were successful in collecting everyones blurb (or so we thought). We were working on the Yearbook layout after school and I was typing up the blurbs then I realized one girl still hadn't given us her blurb.
We were stumped what to when I suddenly had a revelation. 🤯
"Let's just make something up, Kim."
"We can't do that, Laura." 😯
"Of course we can. Listen, she's had plenty of time, MORE than plenty of time, to write something. Her chance has past and now we are going to take matters into our own hands."
Now one of the wonderful things I've always loved about Kim is once she's on board with something, SHE'S ON BOARD WITH SOMETHING❗️
So the two of us sat together and just made stuff up. 💁♀️
For instance, we wrote that her ultimate goal in life was to be an "aerobics instructor". 🤭 (snicker)
(HEY! Don't judge us, she had it coming. 🤨)
🌺🌿🌺🌿🌺
I see this play out everywhere these days, but NOT in a funny way. Christians don't speak out when we can (and should) be saying something and as a result others just make stuff up. And they can make up some be some pretty ridiculous things.
Plus, when we do decide to speak Truth, they make it so miserable on us that we cringe into Silence.
But we are "Ambassadors for Christ", pleading His cause and that is the REAL reason they want us to shut up.
It's not easy to say things that will upset and rankle others (believe me I know), but we must speak anyway. People's lives and souls are on the line.
Don't be afraid. Jesus will give you the opportunity to say something and the Holy Spirit will tell you exactly what to say.
Even a scaredy cat like me can be emboldened to speak
The Truth with Love,
Always Laura-Lee
Encouragement from God's Word is your treat for scrolling to the bottom this time.
