in(RL) was amazing!

I wasn't sure what to expect, but WOW! I loved everything in(RL) this weekend!!! First on Friday, I watched the initial video. I laughed and cried and knew that I was in the right place at that moment...my heart being poored over by these passionate women who don't even know me...who didn't even know the little me was watching. I want to be a passionate woman again. I was...once. I think I still am...sometimes. I just don't live every day with passion for God, my family and friends. The in(RL) video on Friday brought tears for many reasons...I was touched. I want to be Jesus to my friends and I want them to be Jesus to me. I have a few friends who are truely this and then so many others that are just a surface level "thing". Those surface level things are okay, but they are not what draws me to Jesus in the way that I need. So I was encouraged to "heart up" with my Jesus with skin on friends! Since I learned so much on Friday, I'm going to just list some random thoughts below and you can sort them out! Ha! :)

• Write openly & live openly & God will use that to touch others lives!
• Make people's hearts my intent!!!  Make people my priority, make them feel valued, give them 100% of me at the moment they need me...don't be too distracted in conversation to be used.
• CHOOSE JOY!
• Refuse to be defined. Get faith, get perspective...God's perspective.
• Acknowledge the "real" but keep the eternal perspective in clear focus.
• I am able to keep the JOY if I send it out.
• LOVE WELL! LOVE FULLY! DIVE INTO REAL RELATIONSHIPS!

I'm ready to "live out these things in love". I'm ready for friends who are ready too...not just a surface "thing". I'm ready...are you ready? Do you want to be my friend...my Jesus with skin on? I'll be yours!!!  Let's be real together!!!  Are you with me? I'd love to hear from you...

PS. More on the meet up, the real in(RL) people meetup, soon. And I have more to share about the other (in)courage videos too. Come back to read more later.