Team Selah,
I love y’all so much. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss you guys.
But I am really excited for all of you in this new season. I’m praying for you. And if any of you ever need anything I’m here for you.
It’s taken me awhile to stop feeling I’m losing my sisters. It’s taken me some time to stop feeling a loss of everything we built and the community we have become.
We are still sisters. We are still friends. We still have our community and now we have the opportunity to build another community.
This season may be over, but we are not.
And now we get to bring all we’ve learned from each other and about being a team, to our new teams. This time I think all of us are ready to start better and not wait at all to start going all in and being intentional.
So thank you Kristen, Cami, Kelly, and Alissa for teaching me, challenging me, and loving me. And thank you for ending this season together so well. I love you always, my Selah Sisters.
~grace
Dear Dream Team,
I wish I could say I’ve been excited about our team since it was announced. But we all know that wouldn’t be true. At all. In any way. Haha.
But I am impressed and thankful with how we’ve all handled the situation. All of us being able to be so open and honest about what we were thinking and feeling about the team was difficult, but it was also an amazing way to start off this new season together.
I know this isn’t what we necessarily wanted, and I think we all realize this will not be easy. But I know we want this team to be great. And I think we can make it great.
We may not be the Dream Team yet, oh we’re gonna be 😉
And I was so surprised by how much fun I had when we went as a team to Starbucks and just hung out for awhile.
At first I did feel I was losing 3 of my sisters. But I’m slowly but surely starting to see I’m gaining a new sister and 3 brothers that I now have the chance to get close to and go far with.
And at first I felt this was bad. I didn’t want to be on a co-ed team or have a guy leader. I didn’t want to stop being a treasurer. I asked God, “What the hell?!?!” more than once or twice and shed much, much more than a few tears.
But I know as it says in James, God is the giver of every good and perfect gift. God does not give bad gifts. This team and this season are good gifts. They were and are and will be good gifts regardless of how it may seem or feel at any point. I hope this isn’t how it goes, and I don’t think it will be. But even if we don’t see the good at the end of this, it will still be just as good. Even if we sometimes don’t feel loved by God putting us together, God still did it with love we cannot even begin to fathom.
Right now I can truly say Drew, Alissa, Andrew, Courtney, and Will I am excited to be on a team with each of you. I am excited to serve with you and to serve you. I am excited to get to know you better and spend time together. I am ready for us to learn from each other, struggle together, and probably struggle with each other.
I am for this team. I am for each of you. I want us all to be all in. And if I’m ever not, please call me out.
I love you. I truly do.
~grace
