Katie's prayer: Mary Mary's "Can't Give Up Now"

I just can't give up now

I've come too far from where I started from

Nobody told me the road would be easy

and I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me

You know it’s odd, no one ever told me being a youth minister was easy, yet for some reason, that’s what I believed. Not the easiest job in the world, but I thought it’d be pretty easy. Boy was I wrong. There are so many difficulties with this job I never even imagined! And for a while there (if you’re a frequent reader, you know) I was having LOTS of difficulties. Sometimes, it made me not want to try anymore - what was the point if no one would show up. In fact, some of the events, I didn’t plan as fully as I should have because I figured that time would be wasted cause no one would show - and I was right.

But somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew that I couldn’t give up. I tried, I changed some things, I put lots more effort into it. And my hard work is paying off. Since shortly before the summer semester started, we’ve had a constant attendance of 4 teens. And not the same 4 teens. Ok, 2 of them are the same, but the other two are other teens. And all this because I never gave up. But I’ve reached another hard part - the part of continuing to not give up. My end goal is not to have only 4 teens show up, but I can easily fool myself into thinking 4 is better than 0 and is therefore good enough. I just can’t give up now.