something's terribly wrong

last night two of my roommates and i headed over to our neighbors house for a little get together. brian and dave did mission year two years ago and stuck around in the neighborhood. they have two additional roommates, d.j. and dennis. it was just fun. a bunch of people hanging out, knocking back some beers (not us mission year kids) and playing all kinds of games. it's almost like i forgot about life outside of mission year. life where that people just hang out. it's strange. everything about my life is so intentional. which is a good practice but it's so draining sometimes.


let's talk about heart breaking ...


how can it be that a 15 year old girl was excited about being pregnant because her boyfriend and her had been planning it? what's wrong with this world? it's hard to be excited about this wonderful gift when the circumstances this child is being born into are so ... well ... you know ...


and how about the 17 year old girl that came in yesterday to ask if she could get another pregnancy test ... i'd already given her one and it was positive so i was slightly confused. she then told me how she wanted to make sure because her parents were forcing the boy and her to get married ... she didn't want to ruin her life by getting married if she isn't pregnant.


and what do you do when a mother in the waiting room is telling her little girl to stop crying or she'll hit her. how can this be?


something's terribly wrong.