Serving in the SFC CLP has truly revealed something to me. No matter where you came from (country or community) and when you got here, it DOES NOT MATTER.
The SFC group I have right now comes from diverse upbringings. Some have come from another youth group, another has become inactive from CFC Youth for more than 3+ years now from a past chapter, and for some reason, they all ended up here.
There are so many things I was taught to question in life. And as I grew up, I kept trying to find the logical reason to everything. It has even reached a point where every action I made, or every action I have seen others make must have a valid step-by-step process and reason as to why. It even led to trying to find reasons or details as to why someone might be happy, or why they were sad, and it would bother me day in and day out until I knew why. But trying to figure these things out all on my own, “independently” is what was leading me to my downfall. I had become easily upset, easily angered, easily frustrated, easily sad, and easily disappointed… in myself and in others.
This year, with the new adventures God had put in my way, and through the new relationships I had formed, those that I have lost and the ones that I have and have strengthened, I had learned the real reason to all these floating and lingering questions that kept me tossing and turning at night. I learned that the reason for all the why’s and the who’s and the where’s and the when’s and the what’s and ALSO how’s is God. God is the reason why, His plan puts me where I am exactly where I am now, His presence lives in me, in everything and in everyone, but more importantly, GOD IS. Through Him, all things are possible. With my belief in Him, life becomes that much harder, but in an easier way. And more importantly, there is no longer any tossing and turning because whether the answer is revealed to me now or later, it doesn’t matter because I now understand that everything I want to know and everything I need to know will be revealed eventually. If I ask, I will receive (whether or not what I receive is what I want) but in His time. The PERFECT time.