Community and Accountability195To whom will you be accountable; how will you connect?The Impact of Accountability
She was in seventh grade, and I was in fifth grade. She was
twelve, and I was ten. If you remember back to grade school,
two years are an unfathomable social gap to cross. But time
after time, Becca bridged the gap. And for reasons only God
can explain, she chose to invest in my life for the next, well,
thirty years. And counting.
In junior high, she included me in conversations and let me
tag along. In high school when she was prom queen and I was
all kinds of freshman awkward, she invited me into her circle
of friends. When she was in college, she let me come visit and
taught me to play the guitar. I was in her wedding. She was in
mine. She listened and discipled and saw me as more than I
ever thought I could be. She showed me what it was to faith-
fully meet with Jesus, pray, persevere, and love others.
You would not be reading this book without the influence
of Becca Nelson in my life.
She usually rolls her eyes a little when I talk like this. “Oh,
you weren’t a dork.” “I wasn’t that cool.” “You were fun to
hang out with.” “We were good friends.” “I didn’t do anything
specia l.”