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So Young Life leaders log many hours with kids — where they are, as they are. We listen to their stories and learn what's important to them because we genuinely care about their joys, triumphs, heartaches and setbacks.
We believe in the power of presence. Kids' lives are dramatically impacted when caring adults come alongside them, sharing God's love with them. Because their Young Life leader believes in them, they begin to see that their lives have great worth, meaning and purpose.
This is the first step of a lifelong journey; the choices they make today, based upon God's love for them, will impact future decisions … careers chosen, marriages formed and families raised. All ripples from the time when a Young Life leader took time to reach out and enter their world.
Not on cold, lonely heights, above the ken
Of common mortals, would I build my fame,
But in the kindly hearts of living men.
There, if permitted, would I write my name;
Who builds above the clouds must dwell alone-
I count good-fellowship above a throne.
And so beside my door I sit and sing
My simple strains, now sad, now light and gay;
Happy if this or that but wake one string
Whose low, sweet echoes give me back the lay;
And happier still if, girded by my song,
Some strained and tempted soul stands firm and strong.
Humanity is much the same; if I
Can give my neighbor's pent-up thought a tongue,
And can give voice to his unspoken cry
Of bitter pain, when my own heart is wrung,
Then we two meet upon a common land,
And henceforth stand together, hand in hand.
I send my thought its kindred thought to greet,
Out to the far frontier, through crowded town.
Friendship is precious, sympathy is sweet
So these be mine I ask no laurel crown.
Such my ambition, which I here unfold ;
So it be granted, mine is wealth untold.
..you can push a girl away for so long,until she walks out of your life on her own…so be carefull and make sure that this is what you want, because once she turns around,she’s never coming back..!!