Enchanting

This evening I drove past something that I miss dearly in my life. As we quickly passed I strained to look inside the few lit windows into the empty shell of a building. An empty shell full of memories. Full of friendship. Full of lessons. Full of laughter. Full of love.

This place will forever have a place in my heart. This will always be the place where I learned so much about life. The place where I learned so much about love. The place where I learned so much about myself.

Even though it's gone I still feel it changing me. Which maybe sounds crazy, but it does. I can feel it embedded in my heart. It runs through my veins and is always in the back of my mind. I will never forget it. I will never forget what I learned there.

As I sit here almost a year and a half after I watched it all crumble, like so many other things in my life, it still affects me as if it was yesterday. It feels as if it was yesterday that I took my last steps through the halls. It was yesterday that I was sitting in my bed on that awful July day crying and eating Rolos trying to ease the pain. It was yesterday that I took my first steps into a building that would never be home, but only a space filler that had to be used. It was yesterday that I wore a red gown instead of a blue one. It was yesterday that my heart broke. And it is today that I continue to mourn over the loss of a dearly loved part of my life.

Christ Lutheran School changed my life. I know there are people out there who speak down about it and don't believe it was a good school, but it was. It changed my life. And not only my life, but hundreds of lives. And maybe I don't know anybody else's stories but I know it changed their lives. Some people met their future husbands and wives their. Some met their best friend who continues to be to this day. Some people learned a great life lesson. And others felt God walking through those pink hallways with them.

This school still holds a large portion of my heart. A part that I will never throw away. It is a part that I will keep forever and cherish. A part that I will look back upon and share with anyone and everyone.

CLS, it was an enchantment. I will never forget you.

Song of the moment: Enchanted by Taylor Swift

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12