Have you ever been so overwhelmed that you cried? Not the bad kind of overwhelmed where your stressed and worried, but the kind where you feel the love of the Lord so evidently and you’re so thankful and you just don’t have words to say?
That was me Monday night at dinner. O V E R W H E L M E D. Overwhelmed by the love the Lord was showing me through the men of my squad. Each and every one of those boys depicted Jesus in a way that was unlike anything I’ve ever known before.
When we all got home from ministry Monday night, the boys told us we were to dress nice for dinner and that we weren’t allowed in the room until they called us in there 5 at a time at 5:15. They put up blankets and hammocks in the windows so we couldn’t see in and were doing their best to be very secretive. While we didn’t know what was going on, we knew it was something so the anticipation was building. All the girls got all dressed up and the boys all were in their nicest clothes.
When 5:15 rolled around they started calling girls in five at a time. When I walked into that room, there were five different feet washing stations. They told us to each sit at one, and one of the men started washing each of our feet. I was overwhelmed, so naturally I started crying. I have never been served like that before. I have never looked into the face of a 19 year old boy and actually seen Jesus like I did in that moment. Will, the boy washing my feet, looked at me and the girl next to me and told us that this is exactly what we deserved as daughters of the King. They finished washing our feet and sat us at tables where we each had a personally written note signed by the boys. It was just a little note that told us who we were to Christ and had scripture to back it up. They decorated the room with flowers and let us keep them when we left. All of these things they did for us, are pretty simple things, not things that are hard at all, but just the fact that they chose to do them so we could see the way Jesus loves us was incredible and so humbling.
Now don’t get me wrong, the men in my life have shown me love; my dad, my uncles, my pawpaw, my grandpa… these men have shown me what it means to be loved, but to be served in the most humbling way by men my own age, when my experience with men my own age up until recently has been very negative was so overwhelming. They chose to be like Jesus. They chose to love all the women of my squad with such unselfish love.
At this point I know I’m just rambling, but y’all, it was just so incredible. It was insane the way these precious sons of God decided to serve us. So many of the girls in that room have only experienced negative things when it comes to boys/men. They’ve only ever been treated poorly or like an object, but the Band of Brothers (the name these boys have given themselves hahaha) gave them a chance at redeeming their view of men and how they should be treated. When I think about it now, and as I thought about it Monday night, I just sobbed because it isn’t everyday as women we get shown that our worth truly is in what Christ has already done for us. It was an incredible night, and to top it all off there was a swing dancing party at the end that was loads of fun.
So to the Band of Brothers, thank you. Thank youfor loving your sisters so well. Thank you for choosing to humble yourselves to serve us. Thank you for showing us that you value us the way that Christ does. It won’t be quickly forgotten. We love y’all. 
