To my sweet sisters of Team Alvah,
I remember thinking of how great it would be to be on an all women team. To some I knew that it would be scary, intimidating and even frightening. The world mimics their insecurities in it as well by stating different things about gossiping, hormones, attitudes, periods, etc. They put this label on having 6 girls together like it its absolutely awful. Well, my sweet ladies, let me tell you about my experience with having 6 girls together.
You won’t go without a friend.
There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t have someone I can talk to. I have 5 different beautiful personalities that can meet me where I am. If I need someone more reserved, I have that. If I need someone to celebrate my excitement, I have that. If I need someone to give me wisdom in a sweet tone, I have that. If I need someone to give me wisdom and tell me how it is, I have that. If I don’t want to do something alone, I have someone. If I want a hug, I have that. I always have a friend. Always.
You are surrounded by hearts that understand you.
The thing about an all women team is that we are all women. Get it? Haha. So that means we each have a heart that understands the way a woman does things. Don’t get me wrong, we are different, absolutely. But we also just get each other because we were wired the same by our King. So no matter the way we deal with things, we can always resort back to that heartbeat of unity that happens between us. And it really is awesome. Guys are great, but they don’t think like we do (and that’s the beautiful thing about our God-He needed two ways to show himself through humanity). I always have 5 people nodding back at me that what I am feeling makes sense. It’s awesome.
You get a closeness that is indescribable.
I am going to describe in my best efforts what I have with my sisters, but it’s not going to do it justice. Just wait until we all experience it together J It’s like having 5 twins. You know that thing that they tell you twins do, well you get together 6 girls all the time, you’ll have it too. We just get each other. Sentences become shorter because we are completing them. Jokes become funnier because it’s 6 amazingly created brains registering them. Dinners become celebrations every time because it’s 6 people’s lives being discussed. You go to tell an emotion you are experiencing and they already know—because they just know you that well. It’s incredible, I promise. It’s also indescribable. Just wait, sisters.
You get a counselor—FO FREE.
That’s right, you heard me. You can sit on 5 different couches, spill the beans, pick up yo beans again, and leave—all without payment! J It’s a beautiful thing to be able to talk to each other and get so many different perspectives and hearts on the topic and leave a better woman. And the sweetest part about is, because they love you, they won’t tell you what you want to hear, they will tell you what you NEED to hear. Because they care more about your relationship with Christ than they do about their relationship with you. That’s not meant to minimize their relationship with you, it’s meant to not degrade our relationship with the Lord.
You don’t get along with girls, so you say—Well, now you do.
Because look, when you get around 6 girls who are pouring into each other for the wellbeing of one another as well as the glorification of Christ—those caddy girls in High School and College are forgotten. Because if we were created out of the same rib of Adam, we were meant to get along. So that whole “I just get along with guys better, there’s no drama” is drama in and of itself. You get along with girls—God created you to get along with girls, let’s get the job done! Women are awesome amazing beautiful creations—get 6 of them together—and Holy Molly that’s BEAUTIFUL!!!! You won’t be able to help yourself, because in each one of those 5 girls, you’ll start seeing little pieces of yourself looking right back at you—reminding you, that you can get along with them. And if you’re really honest with yourself, you will start to realize you actually desire to get along with them, not just that you’re able, but that you long for that, too!
You get a sisterhood that last forever and through whatever.
It can’t be broken. It doesn’t get shaken off. It isn’t in the land of being fickle. It doesn’t wear off. It doesn’t end. It’s yours, forever. It’s yours through whatever. I know trials come and broke up friendships in your life—but it doesn’t with a sisterhood. This isn’t 6 friends getting together. No, this is 6 sisters knitted together by the King to go do work for the Kingdom. There’s no letting go. We are together in this. Through it all. You can rest in the reassurance that when you turn around in a year, five years, even 10 years—we’ll be there.
Sisters, it really is amazing. Of course you have the different emotions, times of the month, etc. but does that really count out all of these amazing intricate details that God has knitted through women? It’s just so beautiful. I am so excited to experience this with you guys. There will be hard times, frustrating ones, and even emotional hurtful ones. But sweet sisters, you will have 5 women always fighting for you (even if they just got done fight with you;) )
God has put us together. Like let’s think about it, The King of Kings seated on His throne saw the 6 of us, the intricate details of our being, our past, our presents and our futures, the sins, the celebrations, the battles and scars, the struggles, the growth, the hairs on our head—and He thoughts, “Oh they’ll be good together. They’ll do great things for my Kingdom together. They work together.”
Oh my goodness. I am so excited to do this with you. God is about to rock our worlds. Together. It’s the 6 of us. We’re going to move mountains together. Not because we have it all together, but because we were divinely put together and so divinely we will go.
I love you all. I really do.
Your sister,
Kendra
