Listening in Voices April 20, 2008

When you read something a friend wrote you, do you “hear it” in their voice and with the way they use words? For example, my friend Alana says ‘perhaps’ with a certain inflection that is unique to her. Tonight she wrote ‘perhaps’ on my facebook wall and that key word triggered me to read the wall post with Alana’s voice in my head. It was so much better to read it like that!

I realized it usually is a key word that my friend uses that really brings in their voice. Then I thought, huh, I might just be weird. Am I or do you do this too?

Jesus Loves Me April 13, 2008

A while ago, I was walking through downtown LA making my friend Brian listen to a pity party for me. I was whining, complaining, feeling icky and like nothing was going right. About that time, a homeless woman literally hit me in the back, looked me in the eye, and said “Jesus Loves You”.

Wow, what a lesson. I am so grateful that Jesus reminded me that he loves me when I needed to hear it most. It was an unconventional way but hey, it worked! Now every time I start to have a pity party for me, I remember that Jesus loves me. Lucky me!

BTW, Jesus loves you too. Hopefully you won’t need to be hit to be reminded. :)