For a long time my best girl friends and I dreamed of having a house together.
This was before 3/4 of us were married.
We would drive by these amazing Victorian houses that would fit all of us and drift off into a sea of wonder of how we could make this happen.
We would plan our how our days would go.
Bible study in the morning,
see a quick glimpse of each other at lunch,
maybe have some afternoon coffee in our kitchen.
Night time was always the time we dreamed of.
We would all gather together on the living room floor and talk about our days.
We would talk about Jesus and what he was doing in us.
We would laugh, sing, dance.
We would spend time together.
We all knew this dream would never actually happen.
Most of us in college, extremely poor, and there was no way we could get a house.
But that never stopped the topic of conversation.
That never stopped the dreaming.
Now,
Two of us are married, one in a serious relationship, one is graduating high school, one is at bible school preparing to church plant in Peru, and I’m traveling to 11 different countries.
Obviously this dream can never come true.
We are all in different walks, different parts of the world.
Dreams come alive, and dreams die.
This dream never died for me.
And right now I’m living it.
My team Joyous Noise is my new dream.
We, as women, have come from different parts of the United States.
We have different stories, some similar, some of us are complete opposites.
The amount of love I have for these women is unexplainable.
Jesus took my dream and tweaked it.
He handed it to me with a different label.
We may not live in the same house every month, and we may not always see exactly eye to eye, and they have different faces than the ones before, but night time is usually always the same.
We sit together in the floor and talk about our one true love, Jesus.
We talk about what he’s teaching us.
We laugh, sing, and dance.
We have confidence in each other, and we have safety.
I can’t even tell you the times I’ve heard;
“I’ve never told anyone this before” this month.
We are speaking life and braking chains off each other.
I’m so grateful I was placed on an all girls team.
We may talk about our future husbands too often, drink a little too much tea, and laugh a little too loud for our contacts, but we are strong women of The Lord.
Joyous Noise is bringing freedom wherever we walk.
