This next semester, I am going to be volunteering at LifeChoices Pregnancy Center, helping out with phone lines and hopefully eventually being introduced into the counseling side of the ministry. This has been a long time in the making, and I am very excited to get involved with this ministry.
I have a great passion for people. People are the most important thing in this world, and though I tend to hide it behind an unemotional face, I really do care a lot about every person in this world. It tears me up inside when I see girls and guys in broken, damaging relationships.
"Relationship" in and of itself is an area of life that I believe can be the most beneficial to everyone, as well as the most damaging. The reason why the Garden of Eden was so wonderful was not because the fruit tasted amazing or the weather was perfect or the animals were friendly - the reason it was a perfect place was because God was in direct relationship with His creation, man and woman to the point that they empirically experienced Him. Relationship can make a life perfect, but it can also make a life corrupt. Man was given perfection, but continually lowered his standards, and is now paying for it. Abuse, rape, incest - all these things are corruptions of the original perfection that was found in the Garden.
So then, what am I to do? My desire is to reintroduce Perfection into the broken relationships of people. This society is promoting freedom over perfection; by their standards, freedom is perfection. You can choose to have sex with whoever you want, so do it! You don't need marriage; you don't need chastity; you don't need commitment. Live a full life! This is the mindset that I see when I watch modern movies, listen to modern music, and examine modern relationships. It sounds appealing to lots of people - but then they wonder why these relationships are coming up short in their production of joy. For all the love they receive and all the people they sleep with and all the freedom they try out, they can't get rid of that empty feeling inside of them. My want, then, is to provide to these empty people the experience of the fullness that comes in Christ. I want to show them the freedom that comes from being subjected to Christ.
I want to be a helping hand and an open ear to people when they come to find healing. As a Christian, I am called to be a light to the world; as a caring person, I have a huge heart for these people. My current prayer is that God will use me to impact the lives of the people I will be in contact with in order to produce healing and, ideally, new believers.
