Some of you know that I am a member of Alpha Phi sorority. I loved the "Greek life" experience in college where I gained leadership skills, learned how to work and live with all sorts of personalities, met my husband and made some really amazing life-long friends. Oh, yes, I had fun too.
But Greek life tends to get a bad rap in the press - typically one house on one campus makes a few poor choices and everyone who has ever belonged to a sorority or fraternity is written off for life.
Well, there's lots good about being Greek - and of my list above, I'd like to address the latter - some really amazing life-long friends.
Because I have them. And yes, I had to pay dues to belong to the sorority, but I didn't buy these friends. When you share life altering experiences with these women you deepen the bonds of friendship so tight that I can honestly say I can call any of these women up at 3:00 am in a crisis and they would be there for me. Seriously. It's what we do.
And when a sister is in crisis...we respond.
Currently, I have a few sisters in crisis - one just lost her mother, another her oldest sister and a third is fighting brain cancer. Would you pray for them?
Today I wish you the bond of a sister.
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