Letter to my Facebook family ❤️

January 2014

My dear friends: 

I hope you all had a wonderful time celebrating new beginnings. I brought in my 2014 in prayer with my family and wouldn't have it any other way. My heart has been changed in the last 12 months. I've prayed to have my heart aligned with God's and he's pulled me closer to him. I've prayed that his passions would be mine and the things he hates I would hate. As I've drawn closer to God I've found myself questioning relationships. It is my goal to cut off the "dead" things in my life so that I can continue to live alive in Christ. With that being said...I have decided to delete my personal Facebook page.

Unfortunately that means that some great friendships I will be leaving behind this year, not because you aren't loved, but because I have a purpose to fulfill and can't carry around dead weight any longer. This truly breaks my heart because I have had some great friends over the years, but at this point in my life it is time to close some chapters and begin to write new ones. I've found myself looking at some of your pages and reading your status updates and wondering how life would have turned out if this happened or that had happened. I found myself reliving experiences we shared, and these aren't bad things, it's just that now is the time to put it all away. Many years have passed and these memories, though treasured ones, are no longer relevant in my life. Some parts of my story have ended and it's time to cut all the ties to my past and to be freed from it once and for all. I truly pray that some of you are able to do the same. 

One thing that I came to realize in 2013 is that some relationships have expiration dates. Not something we like to hear, but a fact nevertheless. Everyone who is with you now has not been ordained by God to go with you into your future, and for many reasons. It doesn't mean you have to part on bad terms either, but just that it's time to move on. Some will understand, many won't but that's the thing about your journey through life...it's YOUR journey and everyone isn't MEANT to understand it or promote it or even support it. 

Recently I had a dream and The Lord spoke to me and said that the dream represented my past and my desire and responsibility to cut it off....something that was necessary if I wanted to move forward spiritually. This dream upset me because when The Lord spoke, images of some of my oldest friends began to flash through my mind like a slideshow. I knew in my heart what it meant but my mind wouldn't accept it...until now. See I choose Christ. I choose Christ over the world, over friends, over family...he alone is my source of life. To reject Christ is to reject my very own life. That isn't something I am willing to do. You see, there is a life after this one that I'm preparing myself for. Eternity. The life we are living isn't the end. We will not "only live once", but our spirits will live forever. I choose life and not death for my eternity and that means I live my natural and temporary life in preparation for my spiritual and forever eternal life. (If you don't know what that means, feel free to message me and I'd be happy to explain.) I love all of you and I pray for you. Many of you personally request or have requested prayer from me and please know that I have always honored your requests. I have a love for people that many times I can't explain or express. That also is a prayer answered as I ask all the time for the heart of God to be established in me. 

I pray that all of you will have a wonderfully fantastical 2014, whether we continue on together or on separate paths. I'm grateful for every experience, good or bad,  I've had with each of you because they have made me into the woman that I am today and they've taught me how to love and to trust my Savior with my life more and more. I sincerely pray that you ALL will have an unforgettable encounter with Christ this year and that some, if not all of you, will really come to love him and start to truly live your lives for him. Be blessed and remember that God loves you so much.