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| Photo by Emily Diemer www.emaleedee.com |
Lately I’ve heard more than once, “What’s wrong with our
young people these days?”
I’m not a news hound but I have heard of a few of the latest
atrocities that have happened and I wonder the same.
But, I also know there is a flip side.
I want to introduce you to what’s RIGHT with our young
people these days.
This is Rachel and Josh.
She is my niece and he is my freshly added to the family,
nephew.
Rachel, while in high school, played soccer, was on the
journalism staff and graduated high school with honors. She earned a full ride
at Ferris State University in the nursing program where she gave up two summers
to continue school in hopes to graduate in three years. She did that and more.
She graduated summa cum laude, received two awards for top student in her
nursing class, gave her time to a mission’s trip in Guatemala and wrote for the
college newspaper while living life.
Rachel graduated 2 weeks before her wedding. So, while she
crammed and studied her last year of school she also planned a glorious
wedding.
To say she’s been busy is like saying manure stinks. (Sorry
but my farm seems to enter into every discussion I have.)
Josh also graduated in the top of his class and is going to Pharmaceutical
school. He works while in school at a local drug store. He has one more year rotation
and then he is finished. He too took time for a mission’s trip that changed his
life. He is always the first one to help someone in need is very organized and
their wedding was so smoothly executed because of all his planning and
preparations.
Here are two young people who have worked their tails off
while serving the community. They improved themselves which benefited our
society and will continue to in the future.
Rachel already has a surgical nursing job at a local
hospital all ready for her to slide into when they return from their honeymoon.
These two young people have chosen to do the right and good
things all along their journey. Yet, we don’t read about them in the news or
see them splashed across the TV in the evenings. But they are out there. And
many more like them.
Oh, and lest you say to yourselves “Josh and Rachel just had
it so easy”, there’s more to the story.
A couple of years ago Josh lost his mom to cancer. She was
healthy one day and the next went in and found out she needed a transplant.
There was a lot of hope put in that transplant.
Josh and Rachel took such good care of her and Josh’s dad.
They were there supporting in physical needs such as cleaning the house,
cooking meals, running errands. And they were there holding hands, listening,
praying and loving.
8 months after her diagnosis she was gone. When she passed
into heaven they were both by her side.
Josh never had his Mother/Son dance at his wedding.
So, while Rachel and Josh have great things in their life
they have had great losses.
That’s just part of life. They choose to use the loss and
move forward. Rachel determined in her heart she would become someone who could
help in the healing process.
Josh will do the same in his profession.
I hope you have someone in your life you could write about.
They are out there. We just don’t hear about them.
Now you have.
