Before we had even left for Peru I was given the title “Team Mom”, a title I was already pretty familiar with since I always seem to get it in just about every friend group I’ve been a part of for as long as I can remember! Well, I had told myself before I left that I wasn’t gonna let anyone call me mom on this trip because that’s just not who I am, clearly God had other plans!
The first few weeks we were there I would get so flustered every time one of the guys would call me mom, I would get so defensive! I didn’t think I was doing anything that would’ve warranted being called mom, or at least anything that I was aware of! I knew that they didn’t mean it in a mean or hurtful way, but for some reason I just didn’t want to hear it! As time went on I just slowly gave up on trying to keep them from calling mom, and went along with it!
I’ll never forget the first time my team did “super feedback”, literally everyone called or referred to me as mom or motherly! I remember walking away thinking “Wow, that’s all that they had for me!’ little did I know that the things that they spoke over me that day and the many things that were spoken over me in the months to follow would impact me in a way that only God could’ve done!
I know now that God was using my team to speak more than the word mom into my life, God was using them to speak the truth and to show me how God sees me! Did you know that if you look up the word mother in the dictionary you’ll find the most common meaning “A female parent”, but under that, you’ll find the word defined as “A women in authority!”. God was using my team to heal a part of me that I didn’t even know was broken, and to show me that it’s okay to show people the soft, tender, and caring side that I tend to hide from people!
Although it wasn’t until God started giving my teammates new words and truths to speak over me that I came to realize what God was trying to teach me!! I just want to quickly share a few over these with y’all!
Powerful, A lighthouse/beacon of hope/light in the darkness, Motherly, Empowered, Healer, Tough Love/Caring Love, Willing to tell the truth, Fire, Daughter, Safe Place, Caring, Pursuer/Pursued, Sunrays hitting you when it’s cold and warming you up, and Wave-maker!
Those are just a few of the amazing things that used my team to speak into my life! I honestly believe that my team was handpicked by God! Especially considering that Peru wasn’t anyone on this teams first pick, we all wanted or had plans to go on different trips before God called us to Peru, or closed doors to other plans and opened windows to Peru! These people will always be my people, and I’m so incredibly thankful to have gotten to serve and see such amazing God things with them, and to have learned so much about Who God Is and How God Loves!
So heres to the Roof Dawgs and the view that never gets old! Thank you for loving me how God loves me, and for helping heal both spiritually and emotionally! I don’t think I’ll ever be able to thank y’all enough for letting me just be me, and for letting me pour my heart and compassion out on y’all even when y’all may not have wanted or when it may not have came out as love at the time! I can’t wait to watch y’all SEND ETTT for Jesus!!!!!!
P.S. So who’s starting the “Eat It or Yeet It” Instagram account?!?!?!
