My heart aches everytime I drive away from the Denver Youth Services building I am a volunteer chaplain at. As I drive home to my comfortable suburban home I remember all of the youth I had conversations with that day. One youth, we'll call him Clint, says he has no one...his dad died a year ago and his mom is in jail. He says all he has is his gang to go back to and that is the reason he is in this facility in the first place. He is broken and empty, nothing matters to him anymore. That is a scary combination on the outside when you don't have a care in the world. I'm thinking about how God has called me to the "fatherless" and how He can heal and mend broken hearts and spirits. I ask him how much he talks to God and he say not enough. I share with him that God is there when it seems like no one else is there for him. "People will always let you down," I tell him. "But God will never let you down or give you more than you can handle." He has a court date coming up soon and he is asking to get into a placement [a house for youth seeking emancipation]. Every day I will speak hope into these student's lives and know that God is working on their heart! I am called to youth and will follow that call with purpose and intentionality!