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How You Can Learn To Become Vulnerable

My friend opens up her heart.

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How You Can Learn To Become Vulnerable
Karlee Haecker

This week my friend, Megan, wanted to share her heart on vulnerability. Allow her to introduce herself and share her heart on how she has learned to become vulnerable over the summer.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will most gladly boast all the more about my weakness, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. So because of Christ, I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in catastrophes, in persecutions, and in pressures. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

My name is Megan Fletcher. I’m just a girl who loves people, Sour Patch kids, being in water, jokes and laughing, and as of recently, Pokemon hunting. I’m just a girl, who is sinning on a regular basis and has no direction of where life is about to take me. But I’m a child of the one true King and am wholeheartedly in love with my Savior Jesus Christ and the plan He has designed for me. Currently, that plan is this internship with FCA where solid relationships have been built. The Lord places specific people in our lives to hold us accountable, to be that constant reminder of how detailed, deliberate, and divine He really is. For me, those people are the wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ I have had the privilege of meeting, serving, growing and “adventuring” with throughout FCA and this internship. Words cannot even come close to describing the impact all of you have had on my life, whether it’s a friendship established beforehand that has deepened or if I just met you this summer.

One thing I admire most about you all is your vulnerability and promptness to be open. Being vulnerable. Eek, that’s something I am terrified of, but something I have learned to do throughout this internship. See, in these last years it has been engrained in my head that vulnerability is weakness, which seems to contradict my whole-hearted confidence in Christ. 2 Corinthians would remind me to boast in my weakness, and yet for a while, I rebelled. But, the Lord has forced me to open up my heart and show my broken, weak, sinful heart in different situations this summer. What’s incredible is that in opening up, the Lord still revealed my persistence in pursuing the Lord and that pursuit of the Lord being my direct path. Golly, our Lord is amazing!

Without these brothers and sisters in Christ, the knowledge I have gained over the course of this summer and the Lord really placing His hand over my heart, there is honestly no way that my cement wall built up around my heart would have ever gotten knocked down this quickly. You guys are such an encouragement and great examples of relentless pursuit! So thank you for not only being phenomenal brother and sisters in Christ and loving me, for loving our God more!

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