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I Am Second Monday!
I know you are all excited just as I was yesterday.
Last week I made the commitment to write each morning a memory of dumpling, my cat. Well instead of doing that, I sort of switched it up and did a blog about her with 14 memories/reasons as to why I loved her. (see below) This week my commitment has to deal with thanksgiving. I want to write a letter to my dad thanking him for all he does and giving him 18 reasons as to why I am thankful for him (I am 18, so we have had that many thanksgivings together). I want to do this because I don't show how thankful I am towards my dad as I am to my mom.
This week we watched the Shannon Culpepper film. She talks about how her dad wasn't there for her to watch her grow up, and how he went and did things for his other family and other children. She was jealous of them. She thought, "I had him first." Then when she was in her senior year of high school she fell madly in love with this older man, and he was one whom she thought that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. He was, however, very controlling and abusive towards Shannon. She didn't really fully understand all of this because she was blinded by the fact that she "loved" him. He was a older man and a "fatherly" figure to her, or so she thought. She finally realized that she had invested all of this time trying to find someone to be her father and she found herself just talking to God asking him to take the pain away. She found out that God had been with her through everything and that he was never going to leave her like her dad did. She finally realized that God loved her and was always going to be there for her in the end.
The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that's who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.
Judas (not Iscariot) said, "Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?"
"Because a loveless world," said Jesus, "is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him-we'll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn't mine. Its the message of the Father who sent me.
I'm telling you these things while I'm still living with you. The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. he will remind you of all the thing I have told you. I'm leaving you well and whole. That's my parting gift to you. Peace. I don't leave you the way you're used to being left-feeling abandoned, bereft. So don't be upset. Don't be distraught.
You've heard me tell you, 'I'm going away and I'm coming back.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I;m on my way to the Father because the Father is the goal and purpose of my life.
I've told you this ahead of time, before it happens, so that when it does happen, the confirmation will deepen your belief in me. I'll not be talking with you much more like this because the chief of this godless world is about to attack. But don't worry-he has nothing on me, no claim on me. but so the world might know how thoroughly I love the Father, I am carrying out my Father's instructions right down to the last detail."
John 14:21-31
This video is highly relatable so I strongly suggest that you watch it and if you have any friends that you would want to share this with, please do.
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