2. great people in my life :)

shout out to everyone in my life: I LOVE YOU GUYS. ^_^


really, i don't know what i'd do without such great people in my life. such a huge bundle of blessings from God =3


i love everyone....well, i mean sometimes it feels like that :) tehe it's kind of weird for me to feel like this, just because i'm not used to it yet. but it feels more natural than being bitter and hating on everyone. it's a lot less stressful, too :P tangent: STRESS;;;; i have so many gray hairs, it's unsettling. i'll be straightening my hair and spot like 3......that must mean i have a lot, if i can spot them on my own head.... :/ oh well. man invented hair dye for this very reason :D


well back to the awesome people in my life :)
what makes them so great??????? i mean, some of the people i'm talking about are ones who i used to utterly utterly despise before...so there must be only one answer; because of God's wonderful love can i now love them, toooo. God has always loved me, more than i can imagine, and He's always loved my brothers and sisters in Christ just as much, but I wondered a lot why I didn't feel this way for them before....i grew up [am growing up :P] going to church every Sunday, and it's kind of drilled into you; "God loves you." You can hear that a hundred times, but it doesn't make much of a difference until God helps you to see what that really means. tangent: YAYYYYYYY ^_^ yay for God being so awesome!


My DR testimony is all about love; God showing me love on that missions trip, and showing me love while preparing for it. Tangent: If you want to read my testimony, I'll post it up on my other blog http://www.vivaadios.blogspot.com when i'm done with the journal entries - cause everything has to go in chronological order for maximum effect :P  I began seeing how much God loved my missions team, how much He loved the people in DR, and how much He loved me. Cause that's really important, too - realizing that God loves you a WHOLE lot....more than you could comprehend. But not only did the missions trip help bring about such an incredible change in my heart, i think having the missions trip + the retreat like a double pow wow combo back-to-back really helped me grow, being away from school and being farther away from the many many distractions school has.


So, i'm super super super happy that a love seed is finally growing in my heart :) Hating people feels unnatural, and in the end is more detrimental to yourself than others....or at least it was for me. Love is what we need to spread ^_^ I especially like spreading love by writing people really really really long long long letters :D i'm trying to get them around to my youth group, people i care about, everyone? ..eventually :) but i'm trying to be creative also and branching out into different stuff...i can bake for you? i can draw you a picture? i can talk to you? i can listen.


and all i do is because i love the Lord, and i love you.


-Joy =)