what happened, baby girl?

November 10 2005
I love you.  A LOT.  Don't ever feel like you're bugging me by sharing your problems.  I want to know because I want to know how I can help you the most when I do see you and when I do talk to you.  It doesn't matter if it's good/bad- my love for you is not rooted in my opinion for you.  It's in my heavenly Father who shows me how to love by loving through me.  I'm pretty resilient, and God has provided me with a community that reminds me daily of the joy of serving the Lord.  I'm learning that this joy doesn't mean that everything is going to be perfect, that I'm not going to hurt, that I won't make mistakes, but that the joy of being loved by God, so much so that Jesus said that his death on the cross would glorify God.  Jesus was God/human- he KNOWS God fully.  That is a testament to live by.

Jody Barnwell

November 11 2005
i love you lauren!