My dear, you will be fine in Greece, you will have a BLAST (but make sure to wear sunscreen while having that blast because Grecian sun is for whoa), you will meet tons of new people and make tons of new friends, and all of your old friends will be waiting for you when you get back. And if they aren't, they weren't really your friends to begin with (and I'll help you hide their bodies, so don't worry about that).
As far as Daphne goes, you will have to deal with people like her all your life. You will have to talk to them and work with them, but you will not have to like them. It is perfectly okay not to like them. Just deal with Daphne for now, until you don't have to anymore, and then go your own way. She is an excellent example of how not to be.
And. You will be the person who visits sick people and makes prayer shawls and runs the book club and teaches Sunday school because that is what you believe you are meant to do, and if no one teaches you exactly how to weave sermons, you will figure it out anyway and do it loads better than some other people. You know how to find the right words (anyone who's read one of your poems knows you have Something Special going there), and how to arrange them in their proper order to make people laugh or cry. You know how to make people comfortable around you, and how to get them to talk to you, and how to talk to them. I think it's because they can sense that here is a girl who is so filled up with love and feeling that she doesn't know what to do with it other than to give it to everyone she comes in contact with.
God is love, and so are you. And as long as you keep those things in mind, I think you'll find the strength to do whatever you have a mind to.
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Date: 2010-06-14 03:35 pm (UTC)As far as Daphne goes, you will have to deal with people like her all your life. You will have to talk to them and work with them, but you will not have to like them. It is perfectly okay not to like them. Just deal with Daphne for now, until you don't have to anymore, and then go your own way. She is an excellent example of how not to be.
And. You will be the person who visits sick people and makes prayer shawls and runs the book club and teaches Sunday school because that is what you believe you are meant to do, and if no one teaches you exactly how to weave sermons, you will figure it out anyway and do it loads better than some other people. You know how to find the right words (anyone who's read one of your poems knows you have Something Special going there), and how to arrange them in their proper order to make people laugh or cry. You know how to make people comfortable around you, and how to get them to talk to you, and how to talk to them. I think it's because they can sense that here is a girl who is so filled up with love and feeling that she doesn't know what to do with it other than to give it to everyone she comes in contact with.
God is love, and so are you. And as long as you keep those things in mind, I think you'll find the strength to do whatever you have a mind to.