Since 2017, I have been marking significant 10-year anniversaries. For example, 2017 was ten years since my co-op was started and my oldest Michigan cousin was born. 2020 was ten years since I got sick and we found a natural doctor. Things like that. There are good things and not-so-good things. But I thought it would be fun to share the highlights from my life in 2013. (This will be a fun walk down memory lane for me too :) It's so fun to see what things I was doing ten years ago. I finished driver's ed and tried to learn to play the guitar. That was short lived because I couldn't get past the hurting fingers stage of it. In 2013 I was going to Xtreme Science Saturdays at Lawrence Tech, taking piano lessons, going to art class, and going to the homeschool roller skates. My brother and I tried to do RoboFest, a robotics competition put on my Lawrence Tech, but we ended up dropping out because we could not get our robot to work. The school year of 2012-2013 was when I did Short Story Club, something I still have such fond memories of. I started doing CLEP tests in 2013 and our first CLEP Club subject was Psychology. I didn't enjoy the class but I passed the test! They only save your credits for ten years, so that means my credits start expiring this year. That's hard to wrap my brain around. There was a short time when we went to barn dances at Domino Farms and played Pickleball at the Northville community center. I don't really miss those things, but I did enjoy them because I loved the people I was doing it with. 2013 was one of the hardest years of my life, primarily for a reason I will get to later, but it was also the year that my cousins moved further away from us. And that was the year we had to do Speech Club. There is very little that I had to do in my school career that I didn't like at all but Speech Club was one of those things. January
As you can see, a lot of amazing things happened in 2013. I'm actually saddened by the fact that I don't remember 2013 for these reasons. But, something else happened in 2013 that is one of the hardest things I've ever faced and was my first "crisis of faith". Our youth pastor at the time was amazing. I had been waiting to be taught by him for years. He had a program for our youth group where we spent a whole month on a theme and looked at it from a variety of ways. I was challenged in that group and was learning so much. One thing I remember vividly was how he was always asking us questions back when we asked a question. We were challenged to really think. I loved and respected and trusted this man. In May, he told us that he had a received a call to another church. In June, he told us that he had accepted the call, and in July we had a farewell party for him and he left. The whole experience was very hard for me. Then, in October, our senior pastor had a meeting with all the youth and their parents. I will never forget that day. It was when my world came crashing down for the first time. I was suddenly questioning everything our youth pastor had ever told us. My trust had been broken by someone I looked up to and respected. Someone in authority I should have been able to trust. I can still picture the room. I remember crying and my parents trying to comfort me. I came home and immediately pulled up Love & The Outcome's song "He Is With Us" and cried while I listened to it. For years, I would cry when I heard that song. This year changed my life. I struggled with trust issues for years. It was one of those events that rips the rug out from underneath your feet and your life is forever altered because of it. Ironically, that is no longer the most painful event/year of my life. But that is a story for another time. I enjoyed looking through my journal entries from 2013. It's crazy how some of those things don't seem like they were that long ago. I read about it and I'm back there. I remember the sights, sounds, and feelings. I'm really glad that I have a written record so that I can do things like this. Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed learning about my life from ten years ago. I'm curious, do you remember anything from 2013? Did anything major - good or bad - happen to you? Are you a journaler? Does this post make you want to start?
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