A blossoming love.

Spring has sprung! Literally. Down here in Georgia we’ve had months of rain and flooding. Then, almost overnight, flowers and green popped up like the sun awakening on a bright morning. There are beautiful cherry trees everywhere, daffodils, wild purple flowers, and pear trees with white blossoms. It’s as if everything has been asleep for an everlasting Narnian winter, and all of a sudden with the coming of the great Lion there is warmth and green and laughter again.

Unlike many teenagers my age, I’m spending spring break cuddled up in my home with a book and some sunlight shining through the windows. While thousands of kids are flooding Panama City, Florida, I am drinking coffee and enjoying a nice stack of books. I would like to read Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen, Hunger by Michael Grant, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis this week. Well, it’s the hope. I’ve already read the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia, The Magicians Nephew.

This past weekend was Easter weekend, and I’ve got to tell you I have never experienced anything so powerful in my life. God flooded my heart and my soul and broke me down to see his amazing love. At the Saturday night service I was sitting with two of my friends. Pastor J.R. was on a role to the point were he barely took a breath. When the music started playing it got so powerful and intense. There was a picture behind the band of Jesus’ face. At the climax of the song, people started breaking and tearing apart the picture from behind. As they tore it down, a cross was revealed. It was covered with pictures of people. In an instant I saw my picture nailed to the cross. He died for me. I was on his mind the moment he took his last breath. At that moment I was flooded with the power and intensity of God’s love for me and saw a glimpse of how amazing he is.

One last thing to say is that there is nothing in the world like seeing someone you love comes to Christ. This weekend I didn’t see just one, but three people I knew take the leap and surrender to God’s amazing love for them. One girl I have been praying for since she first came to Freedom Church, the very first day. I am so proud of her and am so happy and exhilarated to have her as a sister in Christ now. There is none like Jesus. There is no one more powerful!

God is faithful. God is faithful. God is faithful. ♥