I figured since I have some great photos from our photo shoot with Stephanie that I would write a post about a beautiful person that I’m very grateful to have in my life.
The gorgeous blonde next to me is Chelsi Ervien. She has been my best friend for 6 years. Goodness! It doesn’t seem like that long ago that we met at a callback for Aida at APU. You’re welcome, by the way, for giving you a ride to West Campus. We both ended up being cast in the show, which was actually changed to Once on This Island. After that, our friendship continued to grown throughout our college years. I really can’t believe I have been blessed with this amazing woman as a friend for 6 years.
Chelsi is one of the most incredible women I have ever met and known. Everyone who knows her would say that she is kind, outgoing, funny, and just the right amount of crazy, which let’s face it, everyone wants in a friend. But to me, she is all those things plus a billion more. To me, she is inspiring. Chelsi has always been there for me, through every significant, difficult, heart wrenching, and hilarious moment of the past 6 years. Moments that stick out in my brain are; freshman year when I went to her dorm room to rant about a boyfriend for hours and she let me get a little crazy and mean before helping me through it…sophomore year when I told her that I wasn’t actually taking classes even though everyone thought I was and I felt like a complete failure, but she understood that I needed support not someone to scold me…junior year when I had been dumped by someone I thought was the love of my life and just when I got home and fell into my roomates arms crying, Chelsi called because she just had a feeling that I needed her and rushed right over as soon as I told her…senior year when I was trying to figure out what to do with my life and whether I should keep trying to go to school or not and she was the first person to tell me it was ok if I didn’t, that it was ok to pursue other dreams and that it didn’t make me a failure…helping her plan her wedding and the night before, laying on her bed rubbing her back so she could relax and fall asleep before the big day…beginning to date Ryan and having her be completely supportive and just the right amount of skeptical until she also knew that he was the one for me…and finally, her being the Matron of Honor at my wedding and giving the best toast I have ever heard.
Chelsi is one of the most important people in my life. Not because of the things she does for me, but because of the ways she inspires me to be better. Through every one of those events, she knew just what I needed to hear or not hear. Through everything, she has been the woman I look up to. She will be the first one to tell you that she is not perfect, but no matter what, she has a heart so filled with love for others and Jesus, that it shines through. I know first hand that she has her faults, but to me, she exemplifies what it means to seek after Christ and try to be more like Him and knowing that even when we fail, His grace is sufficient. She has reminded me of that more times than I can count and she has shown me that kind of grace as well, even when I feel like a complete failure.
Chelsi is also incredibly talented and beautiful on the outside as well as the inside. She is going to do amazing things one day, whether she realizes it or not and I know, I will be right there, cheering her on and celebrating with her when she makes it big. I will love her forever and I will forever be grateful for the kind of friend that she is.
You inspire me Chels, and I know I have been changed for the better, because I knew you, I have been changed for good.
“Beautiful one, you outshine every star, you make even the sun look dim today. And what did I do, to deserve a friend such as you. You don’t know how I thank God for you, every day. You know I believe that you were meant for me, that our paths were meant to meet long ago. And now entwined, with unbreakable bind, I could never let you go.
You are the true honest reflection of friendships destiny. Somehow you make my whole world make sense. You are clarity. Time may change us, the world may lose trust. But I’ll never leave, I’ll never run, I could not walk away from you my friend. The Beautiful One.”
Music and Lyrics written by Chelsi Ervien
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