What The Morning May Bring.... (The afTer-gRad)

"It's party time!" yelled some guy I don't know. Here at my friends house we all sit in her big backyard around a fire at our feet, cooking hot dogs, having a decently great time. I know most of the people here cuz I am involved with these people during mainly the summer time. They are my friends and I love them dearly. Soon the booze started to roll out and people from my friends school started showing up, bringing whatever type of alcohol they enjoyed. It's 2am and I'm having a great discussion with my friend about the summer camp we're involved with and certain issues that are circulating around it. It was a heated discussion, a very passionate one..for me especialy. I love working out at that camp, I love working with kids, and telling kids about Jesus and what he's done. Trying to get their minds wrapped around something so mysteriously big brings excitement and joy to my heart. We ended up ending our conversation on good terms ( I got through to him) so I was happy about that, as time went on I saw more and more people getting drunk, my friends getting drunk, some smoking the Greenage, others just enjoying a nice night (cuz seriously it was a nice night) I'll be honest about something...I wanted to drink, not to get drunk (NEVER) but just to have a beer and enjoy it with my boys. But I fought the temptation, cuz I realized that most of these people I work with look up to me, spiritually, they know and see how strong I am in Christ, how passionate I am, if I start doing crap that might hinder that then I am doing them nor myself no good. I do have an alcoholic beverage once in a while, very rarely, but only with people that understand and that won't judge me based on what I believe and how I live my belief. So after firmly telling myself NO I became very happy inside, I started seeing that these people needed help, they were not feeling good. So at about 4am my friend Nicole was sitting in a chair and she looked sad, and tired, and my heart jumped inside me and I picked her up and I pushed her around her backyard, I forced her to "walk it off" and rather then have myself sit there, being all quiet and boring I became this extrovert, one that I liked, and just by investing some time, I had her smiling and feeling better, I then decided that the place was to messy so I cleaned it up, I swept and swept and made the place look much better along with the help of my friends (that weren't so drunk..anymore) I also cleaned up my friends puke, after watching him throw it up. I will say that watching him puke was highly entertaining for me, I had a good laugh. I sprayed it down, and made it look all nice again. at about 5am I put on my latest cd of Mat Kearney, and I will tell you, that Cd is brilliant, it really mellowed the atmosphere, I sat in my chair after doing all this work and I just felt so peaceful inside, so happy about what I was doing and who I was helping, happy about what image I was giving off to my friends. I haven't felt this way in a long time, or ever and it was so great to sit down infront of a fire and listen to Mat Kearney, I couldn't believe how amazing his music is, people were asking me who this guy was and where they could get his cd, that made me feel great. So as weird as the night was, I had an excellent morning with my friends and Mat Kearney thanks to Jesus.