For the April 2012 inspiration challenge!


Using Blue Heart Scraps' New Beginning kit.


Journaling reads:


Anita Dunlevy was my youth minister when I was in high school. This letter is to her...


I met you when I was 14 and my family was going through a hard time. Unlike so many others, you took us in, showed us what God’s love truly was and accepted us, even in a dark time. Over the years, I became very close to you. I loved our “youth meetings” at CiCi’s and how far you would drive us to fellowship with other bigger youth groups. You were always trying to do so much for others. You were the one to encourage me to apply for the YMC and the one who encouraged me to go to TCU. You were my grandma when my actual grandma didn’t care for me. You even went to my high school graduation; my own father, grandmother, aunts and uncle didn’t attend, but you did... I still remember the day my mother called me at home and told me you unexpectedly died of unknown reasons. It was like the whole world stopped and went silent. I cried for weeks. How could I lose someone who meant so much to me? I felt guilty for not emailing you more after I started college, like time had just flown by and I missed out on growing up with you there. I loved you not as just a youth minister, but as a member of my family. Now I’m 25 and I still miss you so much. I still cry when I think about you. Sometimes when I’m alone and worried about life, I talk to you. I hope you can hear me. I hope you know how important you were, and still are, to me.
I miss you and I love you, Anita.