'Til the End

It has been a long time.  I have not written in seven months.  I have missed writing and sharing.  Life has been happening and let's just say that packing boxes and moving is not my forte.  But we're settled now and I am so thankful for where we have been and where the LORD has brought us.
A sweet friend asked me to contribute to her blog site about my faith and how friendship has played a part in it.  Friends have encouraged me and helped to strengthen my faith for as long as I can remember.  


Here is what I shared:  


"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”  John 15:12-13

I know that I will never be capable to love as Jesus has loved me.  And to know that there is no greater love than to lay my life down for a friend?  Inconceivable.  I have gone ten rounds in my head, thinking about all the wonderful friendships that God has blessed me with in my, ahem, 30-some odd years on this earth.

He gently pursued me over ten years ago.  I put up my hand and gently said No.  Over the next couple of months to follow, I thought about it some more and reconsidered the gesture.  So, this friend and I gave it another try.  He was an absolute gentleman, taking me out on a nice date.  What I remember is thinking I just wanted to run into the house and tell my roomates what a bad idea this was.  And I did. It didn’t go over so well so we parted ways.  We had been friends the two years, prior, so it was a little strange to have a different sentiment on our friendship.  In fact, it changed everything...

You can read the rest at a fancy little blog by my friend Aimee, called:  www.fancylittlethings.com