Love is gonna keep us together.

"...We can travel to Spain where the rain falls
Mainly on the plain sounds insane
'Cause it is we can laugh we can sing
Have ten kids and give them everything
Hold our cell phones up in the air
And just be glad that we made it here alive
On a spinning ball in the middle of space
I love you from your toes to your face..."

If Its Love by Train.

Its not about not judging its about LOVING. People as a whole are generally pretty judgemental.

But like Dani says we focus to much on the fact that we have judgement in us. Instead we should just let it go and begin loving people. Everyone loves people. But not everyone loves all people. hmmm okay... what I am trying to get at is usually our love for people is limited to the people who WE think are cool. Very few people just accept anyone no matter what they act like or dress like or what they do for fun. People catagorize to dislike. For example hearing someone be called a cheerleader can have a negative thought just because a person can have a pre judgement on what all cheerleaders must be like. The fact is no one is the same. Dani is a cheerleader and she doesnt fit the worldy thought of cheerleader at all except for the fact that she is good at it and is often happy lol. She is not blonde or ditzy or whatever else comes to mind when you hear cheerleader.

ANYWAYS... those are some serious thoughts I have been having lol but what has come out of it is a new challenge for myself. TO love people. Not just "cool" kids or people who like the same things I do. But even hard to like people or people who steal stuff.

You may be thinking "Amber, I understand where you are coming from but shouldnt we be wise in not liking people who are bad becaue we can be influenced by their bad behavior?"
My response to that legitamite statement would be..

"That is a legitamite statement" and then I would retort with the commonly used but not thought about deeply enough phrase "but What Would Jesus Do?"

Then you would feel awkward as most people do when that is the response. The truth of the matter is Jesus is a heck of alot better than we are. He was perfect. So he kinda beats us in that whole sinning thing. We all make mistakes. What Jesus would do in this case... is love people like he does. He would not have to worry about getting humanly caught up in anything though and falling into following their footsteps like we very well possibly could.

This is why loving people isnt like eating cake. Its a longer process of changing ones own heart and personal motives. And that we can not do without God. Well we can try but the usual finish to controling our own lives end up empty. I have found that repetitivallly. God is always smarter than me and his plans are far better. I like them. alot. This reminds me of the whole taking the plank out of your own eye before you take the speck out of your brothers. In all reality their problems could actually be FAR worse but God sees all sin the same right? thats another confusing thought process that I am not sure I will ever understand.
SO as I am ranting on about all this I am actually convicting myself. hah. seriously. just there I was like wow I need to cleanse my heart and alter my motives in caring for people.

Perhaps it was pointless to blog about it cuz it could be just for me but ehhh If God can use what he is teaching me to help others to... YAY! lol

You know what gets me excited... recieving a text message or a facebook update. I love people and being social and it means alot when you know people are thinking of you. But I dont want to become obcessed to the point that when it doesnt happen as often I feel like no one loves me. hah.

I have had the best summer of my life. When I say that I sometimes feel like I am bragging. Becuase if someone just read that sentence and they didnt have that greatof a summer they probably got a little jealous and feel bad about themselves. IF that was you dont feel bad about yourself. You are fantastic. I feel like a motivational speaker hah.

God has been so good. He has taken me through numerous trials and everytime I come through them and understand why I had to face that giant I am so thankful I did because I grew alot and learned to trust God more and more.

My life is blesssed. I am so lucky to have the life I do. sometimes I just sit and ask God why he was so nice to me. I dont even deserve it. I dont deserve alot. Thats the greatness of God. He supplies my needs even when they are stupid. LIke this morning I could not find my work shirt anywhere and I was feaking out then I prayed and asked God that it would be in teh one place i had not checked yet in my house and it was! That may seem silly but He didnt have to answer my prayer. I didnt do anything good for that specific prayer to be answered so quickly. But that is just how God loves his children. ITS CRAZYY! His love isnt if you do something for me then I will do somethig for you. That is hard to understand cuz its common for people to think like that even when they dont reaalize it. What ever happened to going out of our way to do something nice for someone? For no reason? and no pay! Rewards in heaven will be so great we do not even realize. But we focus so much on the here and now that we forget about storing our treasures in heaven.

Yup yupppers! lol summer is coming to a close and school is starting soon I am very nervous excited about it! :) Senior year! wow its crazy. The senior year became a reality for me when the people I have known as the seniors all year starting actually LEAVING! for college. Now I am like wow.... I am the old one. hahah. Its gonna be great. :) I had a blast seeing JACOBY YESTERDAY! I miss him wish he lived in town still :( gahhh.... lol.