My generation loves speaking in hashtags, whether seriously (for the actual purpose hashtags were created) or to be completely ridiculous. Every so often I like to throw in outrageously long hashtags just to add to the ridiculousness #unnecessarilylonghashtag #allthehashtags #becausewhynot #ipromiseicanstopatanytime
For those of you who don’t know: hashtags are used to link together similar posts on various social media sites. It allows other people to look for similar posts based on the hashtag used.
We at CGA have our own hashtag: #CGAlife. We use it for photos mostly as we are all fairly obsessive over the use of Instagram (instagram.com/kirsisfierce) But just looking at all the #CGAlife posts doesn’t capture the full picture of what life at CGA really is.
CGA is community. We live together, we work together, we worship together.
If you could pop into my house right now you would see three of us on our computers (I assume everyone is working as diligently as I am), one person is cooking a meal large enough to share, one is eating a small meal she prepared on her own, and there could be at two other people hiding somewhere in the house. If you could have been here last night, you would have seen over a dozen CGA ladies in PJs, erupting with side-splitting laughter at a game of “Make It, or Break It.”
While the community opportunities are everywhere, it is a choice. We all have to decide to give in to community, to sell out to this style of living. And from what I have seen, it is so worth it.
CGA is also work. Last week was World Race Training Camp and we were nearly all very involved. From working directly with the new Race squads, to cleaning up after them, we were putting in over 12 hours of work at the office each day. Normal weeks might be a little less long, but the same amount of dedication is expected. We send emails, answer phone calls, leave voicemails, do research, enter data, wash dishes (well, that’s just me), and whatever else is asked of us. You can’t come to CGA and expect to coast. I’m sure you can do that if you really want to, but there is an eagerness in this group of young people to serve and to use our gifts as best as we possibly can.
CGA is hard. For many of us, long hours and taking our work home is becoming normal. Attention to detail and scheduling every moment of the day is becoming necessary. My Myers-Briggs is now reflective of that as I have just stepped over the line and become a J (much to my mother’s excitement). Despite the track or apprenticeship, there are high expectations and high standards. It’s not easy, but nothing worth-while in life is.
Challenge and struggle leads to growth. CGA is about growing. This is what we signed up for, and we try our very best to take on each day with the joy of the Lord as our strength. Sometimes we fail, we are human after all. But sometimes, more often than not, we succeed.
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