Every Wednesday morning I have the extreme fortune of spending time before school with fellow Christian teachers and students at our Fellowship of Christian Athlete (FCA) meetings. It is not strictly for athletes, but for any christian that wants to be with like-minded people and have fellowship together, before school, as Christians. We are all so blessed we have such a strong community together. All of our messages are created and presented by our students. They drive the message, they lead the lesson, and they are the inspiration for all of us in the room to go out and live a Christian life in a world that makes that so very difficult each and every day, especially in public school.

This morning one of our senior girls blessed us with the message that God loves you, no matter what! She shared a song by Matt Maher, Hold us Together. The chorus really struck my heart:

Love, will, hold us together

Make us a shelter

to weather the storm.

All I could think about all day was love, and the love that God has for each and every one of us. Her message brought me to tears. After finally being able to finish writing my Faith Story, being reminded by a 17 year old how strong God's love is for all of us was amazing. He will protect us.

At some point during her message she mentioned the world EVIL. 

I wrote it down.

EVIL.  

I stared at it.

EVIL. 

Then read it backwards, LIVE. 

God want's us to LIVE against EVIL

He shows this through LOVE.

Flip EVIL around and you get LIVE. 

Change the I to an O, you get LOVE. 

LOVE is stronger than EVIL. 

"God demonstrated 

his own love for us: 

While we were still sinners, 

Christ died for us."

Romans 5:8

<3 Veronica