| | Tonight I shared something to the junior high youth group that I've only shared with my closest friends and parents. I didn't go in detail or tell exactly what it was, but the ones who needed to hear it knew what it was. I knew God wanted me to say it, and my heart was pounding, and afterwards I was afraid I'd made a terrible mistake and that I shouldn't have said it. But when it was over, He confirmed it through someone. I'm not worthy of Him working through me...I don't know why He chose to use me because though I have stopped struggling in certain areas, I still struggle in others. I know no one is perfect, but certainly there are others even better for the job than me. But He is using me, and that is totally awesome and scary and humbling at the same time. It's something I've been praying for, something that I never knew how to approach, something that I didn't think would happen for a long time, something that I feel I'm not ready for yet.
I have dreams of what I want to do, but I've always thought these dreams could never come to fruition till I fixed certain things in my life. But God can still use me...I look at the girls around me and my heart hurts for them. Each of them has a story; each of them have struggles. I want to help them and I want them to know they're not alone and that others deal with the same things they do. And the thing I want specifically to help girls with isn't often talked about. But I'm going to change that, someday, because there are so many lies and misconceptions and so many girls take things to their graves that they shouldn't have to.
Freedom is an amazing thing, and too often chains look like freedom and freedom looks like chains. But once the first step is taken toward the real thing, the old chains come off and one realizes that The Truth Will Set You Free.
~Kjelse
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