So this is how it went down.
I wrote that blog this morning. I mosied on downstairs to the room where we have our meetings. I stood at the back of the room. I waited for them to tell us our teams. One of our squad leaders told us they were giving us a card with our team on it, but not to open it until our hearts were ready… til God gave us the go ahead. They called my name. I mosied to the front to get my card. I went upstairs to my bed. I tried to sit on it, it was uncomfortable. I tried to lay on the mounds of unpacked bag that was on it. Even more uncomfortable. Sat back on it and dealt with uncomfortableness. I opened back up to the devo from this morning and read it again. Whew. About this time I was thinking "Okay God… this is so hard… but I trust You in this." That was foreal hard to say. I'm a worrier. I opened the card a little. Then closed it. Nope, not ready. I heard "trust Me." So slowly but surely, I opened the card. I read the name of six girls that are now my new family. The second I finished reading the last name…
PEACE
Jenna was in the room and came down to talk for a bit before we had to go back downstairs. During that time every girl from my new team came in the room and hugged me. My new leader Linsey came in to see how I was doing. Four of the girls that are on my team were previously on a team together. I wondered if I would feel like an outsider. They have been together for three months, they already know each other. Nope. Immediately I was part of the team.
We met downstairs together as a squad and were told that we had from then (around noon) til 8 tonight to be with our new teams. During the time we were to make a new team name. We set out for lunch and every time someone's mouth opened, it was confirmed for me that God's hand was totally in this team change. At one point tears started rolling down my face. Linsey put her hand on my back and said that she knows it was hard for me to leave my old girls. It was, and it is, but I was crying because I was already so so blessed by my new team.
After lunch we went to the mall where we enjoyed some scrumdiddlyumptious icecream, bowling, and a picture booth. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.
During lunch we decided on the team name Cherished Flame. We had to do a skit tonight to introduce our team name and Stephanie wrote this for it…
Team Cherished Flame is made up of not just females. Not just World Racers. And not even just Christian missionaries. We are seven chosen and cherished daughters of the Most High King, the Creator of the universe. We are dearly loved and called beautiful, strong, victorious warriors. We are captivated by our Creator, and He has planted a flame inside our hearts. This is a flame of love and passion to see our Father's will be done and see Kingdom here on earth. It is a flame to grow to better understad our Daddy's love and to fall madly in love with Creator God. This flame is to be cherished with the same care and passion with which the Lord cherishes us. As we grow to know Him better, we will cherish Him, each other, and the nations. We REFUSE to let Satan blow out this flame. Any attempt by him to do so will only provide the wind to fan our flame into a more passionate flame, shining the light of the Lord to the nations. As cherished daughters, beloved by our Husband and Maker, the Lord of Hosts, we will bring this light to all that come into our path, and a city on a hill will not be hidden. All that this light touches will see what it means to be cherished by the Lord as we in turn cherish them. We will not be shaken. Our flame will not be snuffed out. We will be victorious… because we are loved. Because we are His.
