My dear friends,
I know it's been a LONG time since I've last written but, tonight during Mass, my heart continued to be ignited from FCA Leadership camp when I heard the msg at St. James' Catholic Church here in Liberty, MO. I wanted to burst in to tears of joy and shout for a top of a mountiain! What's crazy is I normally look ahead for the Sunday readings but, this time, I didn't. Little did I realize that the reading would be MY favorite reading in the whole Bible. Before walking into that church, all I could think about was competition tomorrow and how I hoped God had the opportunity to allow me to speak to a man who's inspired me and I've just wanted to talk to for about a week now and tell him what's been on my heart in regards to confidence, compassion, and life. NOT your typical oh I have feelings for you talk. Just something that I've long to say on my heart, I guess because of God's effect on me!
After hearing this reading, listening to the Father's msg, I knew it was God's plan for me all along to be here in Liberty and to see so much. It's funny because I'm here for my sport which. I love more than anything asides from God, school, and my family. Baton twirling is my passion, and anyone who knows me will see that it does show. Yet, if you know me, you understand God has created me with compassion and understanding. It started to make since when he began speaking how Love is a gift. It's a gift that cannot be bought or sold.
Love is a gift unlike any other gift we are blessed with. It can challenge in ways not like any other. It'll gives us the opportunities we may not have to connect with people, to show grace, to show that we care, to speak the truth but, with an honest tone, and to be changed (for the good.) It gives us the ability to allow our truest character to be shown and to know that real love, rejoices in other's accomplishments, it's patient, kind, understanding, and isn't envious. It's something we are shown and we can learn from. Love can transform us and move is ways only the Spirit knows how. At the exact time, the Spirit will move within in us and God will give us the ability to speak the words laying on our heart, make something happen, make a difference, connect deep with in us, and does what God needs us to do.
Funniest part about this though is, we may not know someone but, God knows what his plan is. Before we were born, he loved us and knew the great things we would do. Through the gift of love, our faith can be shown, and so can our hearts. Love is a gift that gives us the ability to care about someone without even knowing them.
For further understanding, read my favorite verse!
Brothers and sisters:
Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts.
But I shall show you a still more excellent way.
If I speak in human and angelic tongues,
but do not have love,
I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy,
and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge;
if I have all faith so as to move mountains,
but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own,
and if I hand my body over so that I may boast,
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, it is not pompous,
It is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing;
if tongues, they will cease;
if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child,
think as a child, reason as a child;
when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
At present I know partially;
then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
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