Real Love, Real Life

I feel stretched at the moment. A lot has happened, and now that I have nothing of extreme importance I'm setting myself on, it's almost like the world is standing still. I know however, that this is not the case, as I have learned and experienced many things that I now have to incorporate into my own life, as well as share with others.

Real love, Real life we'll illuminate.

I think the most important thing that I learned while I was gone was that you have to be "real". Real about your faith, real about your actions, real about your worship... People can see the sincerity of that in you, and through that, I have seen many a soul brought down to the foot of the Cross. But let's take "real" a step further. I think it's important to be sincere in those areas, but perhaps even more important is to be real with one another. I met some very amazing people, with great senses of humor and excellent musicianship, but my, were we ever a group of broken and troubled teens. Each of us had our own problems, and by the end of the first week, most of us had brought our problems to light for everyone else to see. You may think that this could potentially tear us apart, one of the reasons why I think we don't strive to be more "real" in our everyday lives, but it only served to bring us closer together, and through prayer and compassion, strength was fostered. It's scary and unnerving to let down your guard down towards others, but trust me, your relationships with those you allow in will be much better for it. I feel closer to some of those people than I do to classmates I've spent years with, because they allowed themselves to be "real". Will you?