made to love

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"I was made to love you
I was made just for you
Made to adore you
I was made to love
And be loved by you
You were here before me
You were waiting on me
And you said you'd keep me
Never would you leave me I was made to love
and be loved by you"

a simple song flipped me around.
a simple task flipped me around.

so today when i was working at the
invisible children offices, i was doing
what they consider a typical, mundane
task. the thing is, i think it had a purpose
for me today. as i was writing the simple,
yet time consuming "thank you" cards to
all the people who have given donations,
i came across one letter that i found intriguing.
lindsey, the girl who gave me the stack of
letters to respond to, normally leaves little notes
on the envelopes in case she wants a reference
made to something in the letter...
well, on one envelope she wrote "gratitude rocks"...

so i obviously went and read the letter, and the girl
who wrote it shared her and her friends' story on how
they chose to raise money for invisible children.
she had read a story in the book The Secret
and even included the story of the Gratitude Rocks.
the writer had told how they had taken rocks and kept them
in their pocket to remember what things they had to be
grateful for. every time they touched the rock, they thought
of all the wonderful people, things, opportunities... just everything
that they were blessed with. it was simply a reminder
for them to realize that nothing was ever truly bad, because
they had many wonderful things in life.

i have many things to be grateful for.
and i can't let a few things done "incorrectly", in my eyes,
blind me from the fact that there could be worse things,
first off, and secondly, that they shouldn't matter because
there is so much more out there.

scott and i drove up the coast one time and i had made
a comment as to how i find the ocean to be one of the most
miraculous of God's creations. and every time i let something
tiny start to sway me, he reminds me that there is something
is always going to be something bigger... to remember the ocean
and to remember that God always will love me, no matter what.
nothing is bigger than that.

made to love
and i love you.