Monday Fever: To Write Love In Your Arms

"To write love in your arms..." These words keep running in my head all day. I want to see the out come of spreading a very valuable words to each individual that we cared about. Who we sympathize and empathize with. With these words we forget the pain and sorrow, the agony of loneliness we forget the depression that holds us down. 
We are so afraid of being alone, being left behind. I did try to pick up myself from all those things and try to learn from that and I grow up. We can do a lot of possible things in our lives and mine? I want to write more about love or sing love; to express love. Maybe I still feel the pain of a scar, or still cry over something that make's me sad about. But it's a natural thing to feel that we're vulnerable in every way. Everyone has compassion in their heart, its part of us. Clearly I understand that this world in the eyes of God it is always good that was He says in Genesis and with His love I experience an extravagant wonders of life. Imagine He is saying "I want to write love in your arms." Lovely isn't it? Whenever I remember He say that it lingers in every part my body that I want to hear more from Him to whisper such words, it will be amazing.

We get lost, I get lost sometimes life can be cruel. In the eyes of humanity, love can be evil and painful, deceiving, happiness looses it's touch, joy vanishes itself. But, in God it is always perfect, His love is the most precious thing that we can feel and through that there's more happiness and joy goes along with it. 

I want to write love in your arms....

VISION:

The vision is that we actually believe these things…

You were created to love and be loved.  You were meant to live life in relationship with other people, to know and be known. You need to know that your story is important and that you're part of a bigger story.  You need to know that your life matters.

We live in a difficult world, a broken world.  My friend Byron is very smart - he says that life is hard for most people most of the time.  We believe that everyone can relate to pain, that all of us live with questions, and all of us get stuck in moments.  You need to know that you're not alone in the places you feel stuck. 

We all wake to the human condition.  We wake to mystery and beauty but also to tragedy and loss.  Millions of people live with problems of pain.  Millions of homes are filled with questions – moments and seasons and cycles that come as thieves and aim to stay.  We know that pain is very real.  It is our privilege to suggest that hope is real, and that help is real. 

You need to know that rescue is possible, that freedom is possible, that God is still in the business of redemption.  We're seeing it happen.  We're seeing lives change as people get the help they need.  People sitting across from a counselor for the first time.  People stepping into treatment.  In desperate moments, people calling a suicide hotline.  We know that the first step to recovery is the hardest to take.  We want to say here that it's worth it, that your life is worth fighting for, that it's possible to change. 

Beyond treatment, we believe that community is essential, that people need other people, that we were never meant to do life alone. 

The vision is that community and hope and help would replace secrets and silence.  

The vision is people putting down guns and blades and bottles. 

The vision is that we can reduce the suicide rate in America and around the world.

The vision is that we would learn what it means to love our friends, and that we would love ourselves enough to get the help we need.

The vision is better endings.  The vision is the restoration of broken families and broken relationships.  The vision is people finding life, finding freedom, finding love.  The vision is graduation, a Super Bowl, a wedding, a child, a sunrise.  The vision is people becoming incredible parents, people breaking cycles, making change.  

The vision is the possibility that your best days are ahead.  

The vision is the possibility that we're more loved than we'll ever know.  

The vision is hope, and hope is real.

You are not alone, and this is not the end of your story.


So Let me write love in your arms...


Xoxo,

Ivy