My Tribe!

Community. There's something about that word that either makes you smile, like one of those super cheesy all the teeth smiles, or like I used to be and think “i've got this, I don’t need people” no clue were I took on the idea that I had to do it all alone but for some reason I had…  And boy was I ever wrong. Not that I didn’t have friends, I mean really good friends but friendships that were really pretty surface level. Nothing ever got super deep, I mean we had plenty of convo’s about who we were dating or hoped to be dating, what the plans were for the weekend, maybe a few about our hopes for the future but nothing ever really got to “that level” very often if you know what I mean… until something major happened. Like one of those moments in life were you literally can’t breath moments, something that never in your wildest imagination would you ever think you would be going through. Something that has literally changed my life forever… but can I tell you that if it wasn’t for the people in my life to come alongside and carry me, I mean like literally help me pick up the pieces of my life that had just been blown apart by what felt like an atomic bomb in my life I don’t know where I would be.

I call them my tribe…and oh do I love them so!!! They are those people you can call at any time day or night, those you can cry with or laugh until you cry with. Those that cheer you on so hard, like high school cheerleader at the the state championship football game that is in overtime type, and that aren’t afraid to call you on your crap. Those that remind you of who you are, whose you are and your overwhelming worth in this world. Those that pray for you, pray with you, that listen to you, that support your crazy ideas, that push you to be a better version of yourself, that talk some sense into you when you are stuck in your head and can’t seem to find your way out okay, maybe that's just me lol…  I can say with every ounce of my being that I desperately need people in my life and so do you. And I am not just talking about those people that you hang out with every once in a while but those that know you, I mean that really know you! Letting people in has been one of the most humbling but most life giving things I have ever done. My friend, if you don’t have a tribe find one, and if you can’t find one then I would love to be that for you because doing life alone is not nearly as rich and beautiful! Don’t be like I was for song long and act like you've “got it” all the time… invite those people in, like really let them in and love them and love them well because trust me, my friend, it is SO worth it!  

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17