09/29/2016
Emma Faye Rudkin
Congratulations to Ms. Emma Faye Rudkin on winning the title of Miss San Antonio for 2017! We'd love to meet you, and hear your story!
Miss San Antonio 2017
To my hoh/deaf friends - captioning below:
Hi Facebook! Hi! I have exciting news to tell you. I just won Miss San Antonio 2017. I am just absolutely blown away with what’s happened and I really just can’t believe the craziness. It was a very last minute decision to compete again and to have the privilege to say that I was 2015 and now 2017 is beyond anything I ever imagined. And this summer, it was such a hard summer, I experienced more hearing loss, the loss of friends… an extreme period of feeling lonely… wondering exactly what my life was going to look like again. Asking to see Jesus’ goodness. And I have just seen it over and over again through Aid the Silent, through new friends, through incredible people I have been able to meet. And now it is through the privilege of getting to love my city again and having year two with you guys. And seeing the impact that I was able to have in just in one year just through Aid the Silent with meeting with schools and with deaf children, it is amazing that I get to do that again and I get to go to Miss Texas again. It was something I was not expecting to do, but now that it has happened, I cannot wait to go again. I want to share what I was reading in the interview room while I was waiting to go in before the judges. It is Psalm 126 (NLT), It says, “When the Lord brought back his exiles to Jerusalem, it was like a dream! We were filled with laughter, and we sang for joy. And the other nations said, “What amazing things the Lord has done for them.” Yes, the Lord has done amazing things for us! What joy! Restore our fortunes, Lord, as streams renew the desert. Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest. “
And this summer was just a season of tears and just feeling as though… I experienced a lot of pain because of more hearing loss and a lot of other things happening, but to see that now I harvested this joy and that I feel more and more of who I am to be because in that pain I have pressed closer to Jesus… and what He says about that He is near close to the broken hearted and those crushed in spirit. And it is cool to come back 2017 and just see the difference. Someone mentioned to me, “Emma, like you have become this woman through this process but you used to be very insecure and not very sure of yourself, but we all saw something in you that you never saw in yourself until this experience.” And that is so true, I never would have seen myself as someone who could speak in front of people, meet new people, meet with students, speak on my feet and I dream these crazy dreams because Jesus has just pursued me beyond anything I ever imagined. And now, I get to come back and I get to speak truth in the school systems, and I get to go speak before people that I would have never gotten in the doors… in certain doors and now I can get in certain doors with a platform and a title but it really is that I just get to show them the love of Jesus. So I thank you for just supporting this whole crazy experience. I can’t wait to share with what God is still doing and what He is continuing to do and just keep the following the journey because I keep thinking that - I am, I don’t know - that it is done but God keeps surprising me with more and more sweetness of who He is. I just love you guys and I will be seeing you later.
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