An Unexpected Answer.

One thing I have been missing since my life become a whirlwind of adventure is working with pre-teens and teenagers. I worked in youth groups in several churches over the years not to count camps and volunteer programs and love the joy I get out of seeing their faces when they realize they are special to someone. I love seeing how although I was their age years ago we struggled with similar things. I truly feel a huge purpose of my life is in working with this special age group and I think I have finally found an opportunity again. We live in a apartment complex full of kids and a lot of them are teens. I have only known some of them days and already they have started sharing painful parts of their lives with me. So many of them come from families of divorce. They have step parents and step siblings. They bounce from house to house never really having a stable family anywhere and it shows. They always look confused and are constantly caught in between the parents and their arguments. I think divorce is the true destroyer of the sanctity of marriage and the family unit. Their parents marriage is supposed to be the first way children are taught to learn love and healthy relationships. I have never seen a successful divorce. I have been wondering where my place is now that I am no longer single and I will be home most of the time(so unlike my life before where a home was optional as I was in a different place often) and God has answered that prayer. He opened my eyes yesterday to the opportunity I have here to invest in these young lives. They seem so at peace when they come to our house where they are listened to, where there is no yelling or violence, and where they can find a quiet place where they can hear themselves think. I am excited about this new opportunity to invest!