Revolve Tour 2011
Posted: March 13, 2011 Filed under: Lifestyle Leave a comment »I am on the road returning from The Revolve: Dream On! Tour in Baltimore at 1st Mariner. Revolve is a Christian conference for teens (similar to Women of Faith). I went as a chaperone for SOR (Sisters of Righteousness) a teen group for girls at my church.
The conference was AWESOME to sum it up in one word that gives it no justice. All the speakers and artists were beautiful, moving and relevant. I wish something like this existed when I was a teenager, maybe I would have made different choices during those days…Maybe I wouldn’t have placed so much value on how I looked. I may have learned earlier in life that God formed me perfectly in my mother’s womb and He thinks I am precious and beautiful just the way I am.
Maybe I wouldn’t have sought to please everyone around me regardless of whether it was detrimental to my emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health. I would have been able to understand and walk in the faith and hope that if I commit my works to the Lord, He will honor my work and the validation of others wouldn’t have mattered so much. Maybe.
I went to church my whole life but back then, the practical truth and wisdom of a conference like this was unknown to me and I struggled through adolescence wondering if I was pretty enough, smart enough, just enough – enough.(If I tell the truth about it, I still struggle with it from time to time).
Now that I’m older and have witnessed the power of God’s grace in my life, I know that every struggle, lesson, victory and loss was not for me at all…it was for ‘them’. For every young lady that comes to me crying because some boy broke her heart. For every one that calls me stressing out over their friendships or how they look or not making the team, I can relate and try to offer them some words of encouragement as much as I can.
I can remind them they are enough, they are special and they are loved not just because I think so but because God says so. And I pray that they remember God’s unwavering, powerful, redeeming, liberating, validating love if they ever begin to question their worth as I often did when I was their age.
Despite the lack of a conference like Revolve: Dream On! when I was younger, I didn’t turn out so bad 
. So now I can’t help but get excited for these ladies’ future and help guide them to meet it with their heads up to the sky!
Dream On ladies, Dream On!
SOR girls with Revolve Artist, Jamie Grace
