like being in love, she said, for the first time.

i read a quote by goethe on the front of vanity fair when demi moore was on the cover months ago. i wrote it down and it stays on my desk.

"girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be."

living for now with what i have. spending time with my best friends in the entire world, whether that be dancing on couches & coffee tables at 321, dinner at panera, or late night talks. i love them for who they are and for what they mean to me. we have been through so much together. ups and downs. laughs and tears. breakups and breakdowns. we are family. that is a bond that no one, not even satan can destroy. we love each other gently and protect each other strongly. if you screw with one of us, you screw with all of us. that we wont stand for.

boys:
love us for what we are...daughters of the king.
be what you promise to be. treat us how you say you would. how you know you should.

i have blogged about one of my best friends on a few occasions and she knows it. after one of our conversations that we had other night (on a back porch that was not ours) i was driving home and i thought about the two of us and our friendship. our bond that we share. we both were running away from issues and pain and the mess that we had created of our lives. we ended up running into each other and God was right there waiting on us when we got there. He pretty much flipped both of our worlds upside down in and through each other. we both separately came to the realization that we never really loved God and lived everyday for Him. we were living for ourselves. and for others. and designer jeans. and ipods. for selfish desires. and sinful nature. for nail polish. and road trips. we saw through each other the power of Jesus and the change that His love brings about. we could look in from the outside and see God transforming and molding and teaching both of us how to love, obey, have faith. we learned to not just KNOW, but to BELIEVE. we still learn from each other everyday. we look back and talk about where we have been. where we are. where we are going. the struggles we experienced. the scars that we got. the people that we hurt. we do this in seeing the healing, heart mending, learning, rescuing that took place. life defining moments that changed our lives. our hearts. our decisions. our resting place. He forgave and He saved.

"and in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His spirit." -ephesians 2:22

thank you Jesus for amazing, intentional, real conversations that are a way of investing in the lives of others. encouragement is investing. understanding is the door that leads to compassion. open it and step through.


we're crashing into the unknown.
we're lost in this but it feels like home
i'm feeling alive all over again.
like being in love, to feel for the first time.
-lifehouse