Tell Her About My Love

Tell Her About My Love
by Victoria Vallely, Senior – University of New Hampshire

Hayley (left) with Victoria

I met Hayley in acting class last spring. She is a gorgeous girl, with bright blue cat-like eyes, blonde short hair, spiked leather boots, and a phenomenal speaking voice. She had this smile that lit up her entire face. I watched her for about a week or so, observing her drastically changed countenance from day to day. Then for a whole week, she wasn’t there at all.

When Hayley returned to class the Lord told my heart, “Reach out to that girl.” The next Monday we went to the dining hall after class and enjoyed breakfast and coffee. I decided to share my testimony with her: the drugs, relationships, crimes, lying, pain, anger, shame, and the guilt. She related to it all. She then opened up to me that she wasn’t in class because she was in the hospital after having tried to kill herself. My heart sank and the Lord said almost audibly, “Tell her about my Love.” I shared the gospel with her and invited her to Cru’s weekly meeting at UNH. Without my reminding her she showed for every meeting.

Hayley kept walking in her own ways. That lasted about 6 months. This past winter, before Cru’s winter conference, she called me in tears and told me she couldn’t do it anymore. The Lord miraculously used me in revealing why she had to go to the conference, and one week later we were at the Epicenter Experience. On the second day Hayley said she was ready. I grabbed Emily, a Cru staff member, whom Hayley was also close with and a Knowing God Personally book. Sitting down on the Holiday Inn’s red and gold patterned carpet Hayley gave her life completely to Christ. She described it as a golden beam reaching down from the heavens connecting her heart to the God of the Universe! Tears of peace and broken bondage came tumbling out.

Two days later Hayley was up on the stage before all 500 people at Cru’s conference sharing God’s story in her life. Afterward she sat with me, crying and smiling that beautiful smile. Hayley looked at me and said, “He loves me!” My smile reflected hers once more, crying myself, as I replied, “Yes, He does!”