What impacted your heart at CCDA?
Hearing spoken word and the workshop about fatherless children.
What did you learn in the ‘fatherless children’ workshop?
That God is the one that makes us and our parents are just the carriers.
The different ways that children without fathers express themselves to be noticed or if they don’t want to be noticed. They said some kids exclude themselves from everyone and everything, that’s the one that people notice more. But mine is the overachiever. People don’t see that as something that your father caused because he wasn’t there. They see it as you trying to move past that, but in reality it isn’t like that. You use it to get attention from people. So you can have the attention you didn’t get from your father.
So that’s what you think you do?
Yeah.
How do you work to overachieve?
I always try to be the best in everything. Even if I’m not I say I am. I guess that’s why I like competitions so much. I like being number one.
So that makes you feel better and you get attention?
Yeah. At least I used to. Now I don’t. When I do that and people give me attention, I feel good for that moment, but after that I want more. Like I’m never filled. That’s why I like that song by Kari Jobe. "You are for me." It says you fill me.
So God did awesome things through you at Teens Adelante the first Wednesday we got back. I asked you and two others to share with the whole group of girls what you learned at CCDA, and they were very attentive. After you shared we gave the girls a choice between you and two other girls to pray about different topics. Most of the girls went with you. Why do think most of the girls went with you? Because they don’t have fathers.
Did you know all the girls well?
No. One of the girls I’m close to, but the other girls I’ve never talked to about personal stuff.
What made you share that personal stuff?
It just came out.
What do you feel like God did through you that Wednesday night at teens?
It helped them relate. I was being vulnerable and helped them to put themselves out there and let them tell us their story of their fathers.
So what happened when they told their stories?
I felt closer to them.
Did you ask them to share their stories?
I asked them to share why they came to my group and they started telling their stories.
So what do feel like God’s doing through this?
I think he’s helping me to have an open heart for people. Not even people I’m close to, but people i never thought would be in the same situation as me.
So what are you gonna do to keep letting God use you?
Tonight I’m going to write verses about that issue to give to them to the girls so that they can help connect with the Bible. Also by being part of the new leadership team to get new ideas for teens.
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