God's love through Freshman year of HS

To spread God's love, I began volunteering at Daybreak Shelter with my mom who heard about it from a lady at the school she works at. It made my heart ache that the poor are alienated and thought of as somewhat dangerous outliers of society and are best avoided. This is very disheartening and is a huge phenomena that is untrue. Waking up early at four in the morning, multiple times in the cold crisp winter helping make breakfast for the homeless people in the area showed me love and hope for change. Not only for change in myself as an individual but also for others who are suffering more deeply than I had been. As another year has passed, my health began to improve and I stopped taking medicine for my illness. The first year of high school is always hard for everyone but I remembered to keep faithful and happy. Every morning I sent a good morning text to my mom and sister with a quote from the bible and explained how it applied to me or something I can do that day to spread love and positivity. This motivated me to do more good deeds throughout the day, even simple tasks of saying "I believe you'll do good on the biology test" or "I'll pray for you" to a friend at school. Little tasks I changed in my life resided into daily tasks that I had practiced each and every day. One day, I met a girl on the cheer team I made that year. We hung out and swam in my pool that summer multiple times. In the winter season I noticed she hadn't been showing up at school nor practices, so I reached out to her to see how she was. Her mom had privately reached out to my mom that she had been suffering and was going through health issues. She got better again and I was so relieved that she was healthy. When we hung out later at the end of my freshman year I noticed she was going back to her health problems again. In the moment, I didn't know what to say or how to confront her that I was concerned as her friend. As we sat and talked about school an idea sparked in my head that I couldn't change something I can't control, but I could help guide her for change through god like it did for me. I later told her when the time was right, “I know you are suffering and I am praying for you to get better. Know that I’m here for you to get through this. God is with you.” Again, God's acts taught me that I could help others. And I felt God had me meet my new friend for a reason. 

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