stuff of legends. Response

dayne.

i dont know if you realize but you are one of the wisest people i know. all those things you said to both of us, to all of us, are things 18 year olds dont think about. you are an amazing, god-gifted lady and as much as you dont think it, god is taking you places. although you my not e moving away, or commuting to a university, He has you exactly where He has you for His purpose. He is using you to change the lives of your small group. think about how important that is. you have the greatest examples in front of you who showed us all how to become amazing individuals and still love the same god and love eachother. they showed us that growing up is beter done when you grow together. and they showed us that relationships arent just about being friends. they are about loving til youre lost, dying to yourself for the sake of a sister, reaching higher than you know you can because even if you fall there will be 6 hands to catch you. relationships are about redefining the worlds definition of a friend, about laughing until you pee and then laughing 100 times harder, its about being vulnerable, about being honest, about being emotional, but most importantly ts about being together. christine and gemma never hesitated to love us, they never hesitated to befriend us, they never hesitated to lay down their lives, their freetime for our sake. they not only led by example but they lived by it. so dayne, you have no better path before you. you have no greater challenge than teaching these way-too-stylish freshmen exactly those things. but you can do it simply by loving, by being yourself. you ARE going places. very very mazing places.

girls

i simply want to thank you for these past 4 years. you are the only thing that has remained constant and consistent in my life. you have made all the difference and high school would have killed me without you. thank you for never judging, for always advising, for always loving, for always holding me, for always pushing me to greater heights, for encouraging, for helping, for instilling joy, for laughing endlessly, for loving god, for being the best peer examples i had, for loving me even though i never deserved it. thank you all for teaching me exactly what a relationship, a friendship can/should look like. thank you all for changing my life. thank you all for being the sisters i have never had. thank you for your support, i dont think you will ever understand just how much that meant to me. thank you for being there in the moments that mattered, and thank you for cheering me on. thank you being yourselves, even when we got annoyed with echother, i never would have wanted you to change a single thing. thank you all for your superb music taste... i now feel much more badass :] but really thank you for being jew, for sticking with it. for never surrendering wht we have for something that seemed greater. because what we have is the stuff of legends. what we have is priceless. what we have can NEVER be replaced. what we have wil last forever.

Christine and gem

speaking for myself, i would be absolutely nothing without the 2 of you. i cannot thank god enough for the gigantic blessing he gave me by you 2 as small group leaders. i want to thank you for being my best friends. its weird for me to think sometimes that you both are 5/6 years older than us but you still love hanging out with us like all the time. it really is an honor and i really do appreciate your friendship. i want to thank you for every single sacrifice you have made to be at church on sunday, to be at starbucks every monday night, to open up your home to us at anytime and for any amount of time. you honestly are the biggest and best servants of christ. you worship him through obeying him and through loving on each one of us. i want to thank you guys for NEVER failing to be there for me when im in a hard place. you guys have been so solid and im so beyond thankful. honestly all those things i wrote above to dayena i have learned from you 2. you have taught me sooooo much and imparted so much wisdom. but honestly you provided opportunity for a sisterhood to be formed and i think that is what im most grateful for. you guys stuck with us and stuck beside us and helped us become the best group of friends i could EVER have imagined to be blessed with. when i take the time to think of the way god has blessed me just in you 6 i fall on my face because its an immesearble blessing.

well all in all this is never a goodbye. it is a see you ater because i will be back, i will be stalking you on fb, and i will be staring at your beautiful faces through the means of a computer screen :]

i love you al so deeply and im so proud of the beautiful daughters of the Father you have become.