The Girls are OK

I meet with a group of girls every other week for discipleship. You may remember reading about them here. They're pretty much the greatest girls you'll ever meet, and every time we get together and talk, I get so blindsided by how difficult their lives are. People can spare me the crap that kids have it easy these days. Stuff does not replace genuine relationships and emotions. They've endured such hardship and meanness from family, and friends, and just this messed up world we live in, yet, they're still so good.

Needless to say, I worry. I worry a lot. I worry so much that tonight on my way home I started to cry. I just turned off the radio, and cried, and talked to God. I just kept coming back to this thought of, "God, I need them to be ok, and the only way any of us is going to be ok is in You."

I think tonight for the first time every I understand what Paul meant when he talked about being willing to give up his salvation for someone else. While it's not entirely the same, I just thought about how I want them to be better than I am. I want them to love God more. I want them to desire Him more. I want them to do better things and be better people than I will even dream of being. I want them to be better than me in every way. I want them to be ok - safe, loved, valued, free, thinking, and beautiful.

I thought about the line Marmee says when Susan Sarandon plays her in the new Little Women movie. - "I so wish I could give my girls a more just world." I know how you feel, Marmee. For now, I take comfort in the fact that my girls will make it better and that they're ok.