This is a letter written to the men of Nsquad but in reality if you are a man and you happen upon this letter take a second to read it.
I write this as someone who is on an all girls team. As someone who spent 4 years in a choir of 60 women.
I write this as a strong woman.
I know I am strong. I know that I have a faith in God that is in the process of becoming unshakeable.
I surround myself with strong women. My friends in California are strong independent self-sustaining women with careers, families & dreams.
The women on my team are STRONG and fierce. We will be the first to roll our eyes at the boy who tries to help us haul the wheelbarrow or demolish the concrete.
I am not saying that it is right- I am just saying that is how it is.
I also write this out of love and out of the place of my role as a big sister to some of the men on my squad.
So here it is guys.
Be stronger than me.
Because I am going to keep going. I'm not stopping. I am choosing to step into the strength God has given me as a woman. And I know and am ok with the fact that God has given you a little more faith than me. That God has put you to walk before me.
And that is a very hard sentence for me to write
I will confess that being a member of a powerhouse team of women only has caused me to press more into the fact that I don't need a guy.
It has caused me to roll my eyes more when a guy chooses to walk on the outside down the street or when a guy walks behind us as a group of girls.
Don't you all know that when we're not with another team we do this on our own?
So I will say it again:
Men
be stronger than me.
Lead me with your strength.
And with the power God has given you.
To the men on the race: don't you see how your role as the minority is so important? You guys have this powerful POWERFUL gift given to you as a the elite group of men who have chosen to forsake traditional views on what young adult men should be doing and give up a year of your life when you could be "preparing for a family" and have chosen to seek God– don't you see how that automatically makes you strong?
You have already stepped up above the men in this world by choosing to live a life of sacrifice, to live a life of self discovery. Just by being one of the men on this squad you are already more powerful, have more of a voice then the others around you.
Own it. Use it. Step out into it.
Be the men that this world so desperately needs!
Lead us in ways you haven't uncovered yet and be ok with messy and failing.
Be ok with the fact that right now I am stronger than you and use it as the jump to strengthen yourself.
I am absolutely fine with you being stronger than me. Just know that I am going to need to get used to it because honestly I have never lived my life with strong men around me.
So don't take my momentary readjusting for anything other than me getting used to it and keep going down that path you are on.
Step up.
Step out.
Live righteously
Be men of faith.
ACT like men of faith
And above all?
Be STRONGER than me.
With my all my love and support.
(Your mostly bigger sister- except for Joey cause he's older than me)
Meg
