My experience of the HYC event has brought many reflections upon me. When Michael said that the “marriage” of such a movement as HYC and our own youth group’s movement would prevail as the new age of Christian life it dawned on me what he exactly meant or at least what I think he meant.

The love that the participants of HYC had for each other and for God was very emotional and came straight from the hearts of all those teens. Yet the reason this love is so contained is because it is love without purpose. The love is not spreading because they have no place to take it farther. What we have is different. We too have some sort of love for each other and all of us at least love and have faith in our beliefs, Christian or not. We may not quite have as emotional or spiritual love as the youth of HYC, but we do have some sort of feelings for each other and our beliefs.

What is really important that HYC doesn’t have is a purpose. We made a pact with each other to take our beliefs and use them to make some sort of a difference, the one common belief being the rebuilding of New Orleans. We decided to make love spread by using that love to find Jesus in places and times in which his presence is most prevalent, places with the most devastation, places like New Orleans.

Therefore, if we can join the love of HYC and the mission of our youth group, the love that Jesus was talking about will be unstoppable and will spread like wildfire. That is what should be and will be the future of our group and hopefully the future of Christianity. That we have so much love amongst ourselves that we are not afraid of anything and that we have a direction in which this love can spread to change the world for the greater good. My dream is to see this happen to its success. To be able to stand up for ourselves and live freely and justly using that love that God has all graced us with. And I have complete faith in all of us to achieve that dream.