We need each other.
This road was not made to be traveled alone.
God blesses us through people. He speaks through people that
know Him. He makes himself tangible in the love shared between friends. He is
the heartbeat of many of my relationships in college
When our friend suffers, we are called to walk alongside
them in that. We are called to give love to them even when they are not in a
place to give that love back. Good friends are the ones who stick next to you
even when you know you aren’t being a good friend back. I think Jesus was that
kind of friend.
The kind that never stops praying for you even when you are
running away. The kind that speak truth into you, even when you wish they would
agree with the lies you are believing. The kind that cries with you because
seeing you in such pain breaks their heart.
I prayed for community 2 years ago. I prayed for people who would understand
me, for people who would rather stay in on a Friday night and bake than hit the
town, for people that knew how good freedom tastes.
He has answered
that prayer… in absolute abundance. The people that surround me are jems. They
get me. They run towards freedom by my side. We bake cookies and sit by fires.
We dance like fools. They know how much Jesus loves them. We pray together. They
see me with our Creator’s eyes. It is good. It is sweet.
…and I am left
only being able to kiss the feet of Jesus.
The Giver of all things has graciously given me a new friend
in the past couple of months. I like to call her LC It is like I have known her
for years but we only met in late fall and we first spent time together in
early January. Yet, our stories share a lot of the same twists and turns. We
both have witnessed our God’s saving grace. We both want more and more of Him.
She loves me for some crazy reason and I think the world of
her. We both know that it is supposed to be. We are supposed to be in each
other’s lives because that Holy Spirit inside of us, keeps telling us so. We are sisters under His house.
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| LC's little hands holding our cookies. |
After being around her I know that I
have been with Jesus and that’s the best part.
I pray that LC and I can be good friends to each other. I
pray that we will be forever friends and forever get to tell people of how the
good Lord brought us together. I pray that when things get hard between us and
in life, we will run to you Lord. I pray that I will serve LC out of your love
and care for her soul. I pray that I’d be the kind of friend that Jesus was to
all who he encountered. I thank you for people in this life. I thank you for my
people, the people you have given me along this road that love me because you
do. Amen.
