Encouragement When I'm Down

On Wednesday, chorus was really discouraging. We were supposed to rehearse, but our seniors were leading us. And the chorus president just didn't care at all. She tried to warm us up, but she didn't care, so no one listened to her. It became a disaster. No one listened, and finally she just gave up. And then when a couple of my friends were talking about going to rehearse in a practice room, I was going to go with them. But then one of their other friends came up to me and told me I couldn't join them because they were practicing with her. So in the end, I sat in the chorus room by myself. It was really discouraging, because I really needed to rehearse, and also I just felt like they didn't care about me very much if they were going to just leave me and not stand up for me. I know that's silly, but I still felt it a lot. But then next period, our French teacher showed us all these cool pictures of when she went to Niger for two years. She went with a Christian missions group or something. Anyway, it really encouraged me to see how she gave up two years of her life to do something for God. She spent two years in what at the time was the poorest country in the world, to do something for God. And she had some great experiences. It just reminded me to be cheerful no matter what kind of issues I have.