-love Jesus-
Four months ago, a 14 year-old named Jonah Mowry made a video. He wrote on index cards and held them in front of the camera, one after another, owning his words bravely for the world to see. The world is seeing it. The video is seemingly everywhere this week, and we think it’s great. We are proud to share it with you.
Jonah is in eighth grade and no stranger to being bullied at school. He shares his journey through school, how bullying started in first grade and never stopped. There at the end, he acknowledges that things can’t keep going the way they’ve been going, but his recognition doesn’t imply defeat, rather it fuels his fight for his own story. He is stronger than giving up. He is worth more than giving up. He has a million reasons to live. In the dark, tangled up in his fears, Jonah seizes his own strength.
It is a hard road to find and hold on to the truths Jonah finds and holds in his video, and some of us don’t know how to get to the strength locked within ourselves. And it is in this place that I’m reminded that we need each other, that hope and goodness and truth and love, definitely love, can change a life.
People need you.
You need people.
What would the world look like if we lived like we believe in that? What would the world look like if we helped each other find the strength locked up within us? If, instead of tearing each other down with hate, we built each up with truth and love?
What would happen if we simply used our words for kindness?
Your words have power, and the way you shape them matters. Use them carefully, and use them often.
Wishing you hope and grace.
whitney
-love hope-
I don’t have much to give
Oh, Lord take my life
But I want to give You all I have
Jesus, You’re the reason that I live
Still I need your mercy, I need Your grace
Use my life
Oh, Lord, I want You to use me
-love the one who is the provider of mercy and grace-
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
Romans 12:3
-love our creator-
(Source: formerlyrevelationsong)
by Jon Walker
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5:6
You learn to trust God by obeying him in small ways.
At this point in relationship with Jesus, you no doubt agree God is the supreme ruler of the universe, powerful enough to…
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