Alright.
It is official.
Summer always makes me feel like a giddy
school girl.
My window is open and my candle is lit…I am
sooo looking forward to summer…except I am already starting to get
allergies…buuuuut I think it is worth it haha…
I had to remove like 6 blankets from my bed
because I started getting too hot at night...so that’s always an exciting
thing…
I’m looking forward to bike rides and evening
runs and kayaking on the lake…
Summer camps (yes, plural)!! And just hanging
out and being goofy with my youth girls!!
I have decided to declare this summer – “The
Summer of Love”
Yep. I can do that. I am sure I have some
special royal ancestor back in that family tree somewhere!
We don’t have to fall INLOVE…who knows…maybe
that will happen, but I digress.
I just want to spend my time loving on
people!!! And just BEING THERE for people!
Doing this study with the girls has made me
see how much they are just starving for TRUE friendship!!! They want those
genuine, tough friends who honest with them even when it’s brutally painful!
So BE THAT FRIEND!!!
A few weeks ago I talked about community with
the girls! And I brought up the “Be a Barnabas…pursue a Paul…train a Timothy”
Most of the girls have a Paul and a Timothy
in their life…but hardly any of them seemed to have a Barnabas or even BE a
Barnabas to someone else!!! And it made me so sad! We all NEED someone to walk
along side us and encourage us and ask us the hard questions and make us feel
accepted and safe…someone who needs us to do that for them just as much as we
need them to do that for us!
If there is someone in your life who has
encouraged you in some way then tell them!
One thing I am learning is just how important
it is to show those around us how much we care about them.
Do something special for them! Go out of your
way to show them you care!
Go to coffee with someone you haven’t talked
to in awhile!
Or make a new friend!
Find someone to get to know and just go for
it!
Call an old friend up to see how they are
doing! (please don’t text them or facebook them…….that is the most impersonal
thing ever……..)
ACTUALLY MAKE AN EFFORT to show them they
mean something to you!!!
I feel like we are such an awkward
generation…no one knows how to have meaningful face-to-face conversations
anymore…(yeah I am one to talk…someone who has a blog! Haha) but you know what
I mean! We go out with a group of friends and everyone is sitting there on
their phones through the whole meal…..sooooooooooooo rude!
No one knows how to really TALK and
COMMUNICATE anymore…
So learn how!!!
We are all made for community.
I know it is hard to get to know people and
trust them enough to let them in – especially if you have been hurt before…but
just pray about it and God will bring you an incredible friend. Just remember
you have to BE a friend to have a friend!
