Sunday, March 11, 2012

"Two is better than one"

Accountability Partner /noun/. One who coaches another person in terms of helping the other person keep a commitment.

AP Time -Time set apart each day, week, or month that you go and bond, share, and love on your AP.
  • Walks in the back forty
  • Taking pictures
  • Watching movies
  • Laughing at each other
  • Go shopping
Those are some of the things me and my AP did while I was an intern. One night (about 2 weeks after the P.E.A.R.L we went on the new O.C and laid under the stars sharing our lives with each other. Another day we went into the little city and participated in a Human Trafficking Awareness rally. Sometimes, we'd just eat food and fall asleep outside. But this woman of God is amazing.
Mary Kailah  Butler...She is not only a Proverbs 31 woman, but a woman who lives out the bible.
But back to the definition of an AP... the whole "helping keep commitments" she carried that one out...
Little known fact about me-I'm LAZY! I'm the queen of sleeping in til 4 min before class, and making up excuses for not doing corporate.
Little known fact about Mary-Total opposite..she ran for FUN! (total weirdo)
One morning...I was somehow blessed to not do corporate for 8 weeks. (From breaks, to Swat, to rain days, get out of free cards..etc) I was planning on being "sick." So, I'm walking down to corporate in flip flops...half way down Mary pulls me aside and asked me why I wasn't doing corporate, I told her cramps and she nicely told me that she didn't care, and she was going to make me carry through on my commitment...with or without flip flops, I was gonna do it.
So; there i stood, in line with her, in flip flops doing overhand claps, and heel raises. (painful when you don't do them for 8 weeks)..complaining the whole time...
Right after break i had a H.C and she came from work (CCM) and prayed for me before my case, and then was there when I finished.
The night I got dismissed, I didn't want to tell her, part of my heart was ripping apart, but to see the love in her tear filled eyes, to see her experience my pain, meant so much to me. THAT ladies and gents is a REAL AP!
Yeah, now we are literally 1,000 miles away, and we don't  talk every day, but she has continually been there for me, and sometimes I am so selfish and forget to do MY job as an AP... (besides her AMAZING birthday week) But I love her to death, and tonight, I am so immensely proud of her.
She, not only made a commitment with me in August to stay a year, but she made another commitment tonight to be held accountable to the interns before her, and after her. She join the Line...the Fellowship...SHE IS AN AMAZING WOMAN OF GOD!!!

Proverbs 31:36
She opens her mouth with wisdom and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

<3 Song of Solomon 8:6-7 <3
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