Let Us Love

So it's been awhile since our last post on here and in these weee hours of the morning I've been really thinking about myself. I feel as though the past two weeks have been an eye opening or an AH Ha type of thing going on in my life. Lately, I have been really getting away from my normal self and I dont know going through one of those valleys that we all seem to go through as humans. Let's venture to the beginning of my epic eye opening awesomeness of a time period.

Well we begin with the mission trip that I was involved with for the first week of awesomeness. I experienced things that used to be way beyond my comfort zone like how to react and help people with mental disabilites, but along with bonding with the campers and staff that I met at Camp Friendship, I learned new things about myself that I had never known before. For example, that I have a fear of my past coming back and showing it's ugly face in my current and clean future. I feel as though I have problems showing my true self to people that I know and have grown close to because they know of my past and of who I am. On the otherhand, I'm more comfortable with meeting new people because the "slate is clean" meaning they know me for who I am now instead of my past and dont know about my past unless I actually build enough trust to tell them. I am so working on this whole "not letting my past define me" thing and I know it's going to be a struggle.

That's just week one......I like to call it The Realization Week.
Here is week two......TEC Week.....End. This weekend really helped me out with the whole past, and getting over it. With God's love and grace, I have been kind of refreshed with the Holy Spirit and shown the light in retrospect. That I will not let my past define me......to forgive all, love all, pray for all, and most of all love myself.

"To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
-Mark 12:33

That verse tells us to Love God with all your strength and all of your understanding, but also to Love Your Neighbor as if they were yourself.

Just like this song says:

Let us love, Like we were children. Make us feel, Like we're still living. In a world I know that's burning to the ground. Give us time, To beat the system, Make us find What we've been missing. In a world I know that's burning to the ground

-Let Us Love by NeedtoBreathe