"If they will not accept me and my sisters as preachers, then we will just have to become prophets." -Rachel Held Evans

This summer has become life changing for me...

It all started with a huge decision. To stay in the city where I go to school or to go back home with my family. As much as I love my family, I wasn't looking forward to going back and working the same crappy job I have worked two summers in a row for the county.

So with many doors opening in Circleville, I decided to stay here.

The biggest door being the apartment I live in, thanks to a very special friend. This special friend, who just got out of living in an estrogen-filled dorm for four years, was ready to live in her very first big girl apartment. Alone. But God knew otherwise.

I was just talking with her about how I wasn't sure that it would be worth the time or money to live on campus because I would be spending most of my money on food since there is no meal plan in the summer.

Then the words came out of her mouth with little to no hesitation, "You can live with me."

That is where this small story of my big story begins.

While living with Nat, she has kicked my butt spiritually, and she has pushed me to be better without even really knowing it (starting with going to church on Sundays).

Another unbelievable thing about me is that while going to a Christian school, I never really felt the need to get involved in a church while going to school here. I had Christian community, I didn't need anything else...boy was I wrong.

So I started going to church with Natalee. In that, I got involved with her small group. I originally thought it was just going to be a group of women my age...boy was I wrong about that too!

The small group has women aging from 70 to 13. And each and every one of them has taught me something extremely important about the Lord and what it means to have true unity with a group of believers that only have two things in common: we are women and we love Jesus.

I have been completely covered in prayer.

We have had late-night conversations about what the Lord is saying.

We have the joy of the Lord, which usually results in laughing at nothing at all.

We cry with each other.

In all of these things, we are one.

We are a sisterhood in Christ. A sisterhood that has changed my life, for the better.

"Now I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction." -1 Corinthians 1:10