We Love And We Unite

Ok, I'm sorry for that really weird title, I couldn't really think of one because this post will be a special surprise 2 in one post. Yay! Ok so lets start with this one because its shorter.

We Unite

So, if you know my youth group, you would know that we have a ton of different fun and funky corks whether it be a persons laugh, or the way we say amen after we pray. Lately, we've been holding hands while we pray. I know some people do this, but we've never really done it before, and I must say that I really like it. I do this weird thing when I hold hands though, I tend to stroke their hand with my thumb. I know it sounds super weird but it soothes me. I also do this thing where I take their hand and put it up to my forehead, I don't know why I do it, I just do. But anyway we were holding hands and praying and I was stroking their hand, and when we said amen I put their hand to my forehead. Now you see, normal people would freak out and think that was completely weird, but instead of looking up to a horrified face, I looked up to a smiling face. You could tell this smile was a "I know most people would think this is weird, but I love it with all my heart" Type of smile. I mean how much more blessed could I get?

We Love

"We love because he first loved us" -1 John 4:19. Have you heard that verse? If you haven't let that sink in for a second. I mean I strongly believe that. If you knew me before I was a strong believer in Christ, you would know that I was completely  NOT loving AT ALL. If you look at me now you would think that my love is obnoxious. See, when I wasn't a strong believer, actually I wasn't even a believer at all. So, when I wasn't a believer, I didn't show love because I really didn't know what it was. I wasn't really shown love, I mean yes of course my family showed me love, but I didn't really think of it as love. It wasn't until I was truly shown Gods love both directly from what I've learned and what he's done for me, but also indirectly through people. My youth group was really the first people to ever show me what real love was, and how to really love a person. I walked in, and the first thing I felt was a big wave of love, and I still walk in and feel that. Now I can't hold that love back, its why I'm so annoying about it. We really don't know what love is until we see Gods love, and with out seeing his love, we can't truly love. "We love because he first loved us." Its that simple.