Influence

I grew up the youngest child, ive always been the youngest child, ive always felt the youngest, cutest, and could get away with the most and for the most part thats been true up until last week when i was thrown into a costa rica missions trip. there were 5 kids ages 10-14 and for some reason they all flocked to me, incessantly. i dont know why, and it baffled me why they would hang around me so much and talk my ears off and latch on to me but then i remembered being their age and hanging around my older sisters friends and on missions trips the older kids were THE coolest people EVER! and i remembered how i felt around them and i thought these kids must think im cool like the cool kids i knew! 

that felt cool

i felt very influential, like i could help shape their lives, be a role model for how they could act-i could be an older sister!

now, i feel God has given me some really cool revelations about life i know things that i want other people to know, and now i had an audience. people who would almost hang onto every word i said, i really, honestly, felt powerful-i could change the atmosphere in the room (now i realize that anyone can do this but its still really cool to realize) i wanted to be a good example i wanted to show them that i thought they were cool and im not to cool to listen to them (even when they all talk at the same time!) and to just love on them-love cures everything- and i truly believe that! i saw how they would react to things and i noticed how they changed over just that one week together. its really cool being influential, having people look up to you, but i also realized that its kind of the same with your peers and people older than you. people feed off of each other get signals and cues off of people on how to behave and how to respond. 

i think its important to know how much you affect people all around you younger, older, and peers we all feed off of each other and sometimes give each other unknown "permissions" or the opposite. but i like being a role model i think i have some good things to share.

who are you a role model for?