Ripped off

(God to Abraham) ...through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed... Gen 22:18

bless - 3. To invoke divine favour upon.
blessing - 3. Something promoting or contributing to happiness, well-being, or prosperity(dictionary.com)

This might upset some people so I apologise in advance.

I have recently become friends with this amazing beautiful girl, who is really really really shy. I'm really excited to know her and be a part of her journey, and I love that we're really different - she hates sport and the water : ) recently a few people have been like, Amy I think its really cool you're taking the time to get to know her bla bla bla and I've been like yea I'm pretty cool. Anyways, so we had thanksgiving lunch together and afterwards she was like, would you maybe want to hang out this weekend? and I was like yea! how about Sunday after church? and she was like, yea ok we'll see. And so Sunday comes around, and its a beautiful day, and I'm like God, thank you for this day, I'm going to the beach! and God was like, what about Polly (code name) - she hates water? and I'm like, its ok we can hang out another day, and God was like, Amy, you told her you'd hang out with her today. And then I was thinking about how much effort I was putting in to actually getting to know her and making her welcome, and I realised I'm not half or even a quarter as noble as I think I am. But thats ok and its not my point. I was like, God, I'm not hurting her by not hanging out with her. And God was like, no Amy but you're not blessing her either, so what is the point in chasing her?

There is a really common world view these days, which I used to agree with, and even up to a certain extent agreed with up until yesterday. And that is the thought/idea that its ok for people to do whatever they want, as long as they don't hurt anyone.

And I just want to say, that is SUCH a rip off.

People just want to get through life without being hurt...God wants people to go through life being more blessed than they could imagine. He doesn't want me to simply not hurt Polly - when has friendship/relationships simply been about not hurting someone? when has that even been possible? He wants to bless her through our friendship. People hurt, I think thats unavoidable. Blessing people is avoidable unfortunatley, and far too common - and christians are often the worst culprits.

I know this probably sounds kinda fairy taleish, but this is the best I could come up with for now, I don't think life is at all supossed to be easy, but being blessed is truly Gods desire for our lives. He loves us more than we could imagine right? So if people who you know how much they love you bless you, how much more does he want to bless you? If there are christians in your life who aren't blessing you, I'm sorry. I want to apologise on their behalf. If I haven't been blessing you, I'm sorry and I'm going to, by grace, make more effort.

I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense, just had to put it down.
much love
A xxox