Thursday, February 21, 2013

Secret Admirer

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I have always loved receiving handwritten letters. There is nothing more exciting to me than opening up my mailbox to find a letter from a long-lost friend. With technology letters aren't as common as they used to be. It is kind of disheartening if you think about. I love the time that someone takes to actually sit down and write a letter. A handwritten letter. It means something more than just the everyday text or email.

I was thinking the other day how neat it would be to have a secret admirer. I know, I am old-fashioned and this blog is proving it. But just hear me out for a second. How sweet would it be for you to go to your mailbox and find a handwritten letter from a boy stating that he thinks you are an amazing girl with a gorgeous smile. It would make your heart pound, wouldn't it? 

Would you write back? Let's say yes, you would write back. To be honest, I would. I have no clue what I would write. Maybe I would ask some of his favorite hobbies, if he hangs out with my friend group, etc. But there would be one thing constantly on my mind... What does this boy look like? 

It is very important that you attracted to someone you date. Looks aren't everything. This is for certain, but you do have to be attracted to the person you date. 

So... let's say that you and your secret admirer have been writing back and forth for a quite awhile. You have fallen for this guy within the exchange of handwritten letters that get longer and longer the more you write to each other. It is finally time that you find out who your secret admirer is. You are nervous. You are excited. You... don't think he's attractive. 

What do you do now? You don't think this is guy is attractive. At all. But you LOVE his personality and all the letters and feelings that are exchanged. What do you do? Friend-zone him? Ignore him the rest of your life? Both seem logical, right?

To be honest, I think I would friend zone him. I know that makes me sound awful, but I don't want to ignore this guy whom I have a lot in common with. A guy who genuinely thinks I am an amazing girl. What do you say to him? Look, I really have enjoyed this back and forth communication, but I'm just not attracted to you physically? Yeah, okay. I don't know. I've never been in this situation. Remember, I'm speaking hypothetically. 

You wouldn't want to lead him on though. That would not be right by any means. Don't pretend to be attracted to someone you aren't.

However, let me say this. The more you look at the good in people and fall in love with someone's personality the more they become attractive to you. Seeing beautiful things in people make them beautiful to you. You find yourself actually thinking they are attractive. I have experienced this. I promise it happens. They might not be the hottest human-being, but you aren't either. Sorry, but it's the truth.

Anyway, this is not my point. If you have made it this far in reading this blog, then props to you. You are about to read the true meaning of the reason I spent the time typing this blog. (If only, I could handwrite it for you.) 

So here it goes....

What if you were the secret admirer? What if you were writing to this guy that you wanted to notice you? A guy you truly could see yourself being with? Okay, so I don't have the guts to write a handwritten love note to a guy; but we are being hypothetical and I do. 

So... I write this love letter expressing my feelings. The guy writes back and we begin to write back and forth. This is going somewhere. Well, until we meet face-to-face and he doesn't think I'm beautiful. What happens? Does he friend-zone me? Does he ignore me?

What if... I was writing to Jesus. We met face-to-face and He didn't want anything to do with me because I was so ugly. I was unattractive. Well, you see the thing is I am unattractive because of the sin that is in my life. I am rotten to the core. Jesus doesn't like it. 

However, He doesn't turn His back on me because He has fallen in love with me. He wants a relationship with me. He see's the good in me and that makes me beautiful. The cool thing is that Jesus can take all the ugliness, unattractiveness in my life and make it beautiful.

He makes me beautiful because He sees the girl who loves Him and is committed to being a better person for Him. He sees a girl who is committed to following Him. He sees His not-so-secret admirer, His daughter reaching for help in this crazy life.  

The best thing in all of this is that Jesus died for me to make me beautiful even before I was His not-so-secret-admirer. What love!

Seek the beauty in other people. Not the negative. Let Jesus make you beautiful from the inside out.

God Bless,
Kaitie

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Wanted

I was watching a movie the other day called October Baby. Yes, I cried.

For those of you who do not know, I was born in October and I was adopted by my daddy. So this movie really got me thinking about how blessed I am that I am wanted.

I love my momma and daddy with my whole being. God could not have blessed me with better parents who care and want the best for me. God has given me parents who truly want me, who truly love me.

Don't you just love the feeling of being worth something to someone? Everyone wants that feeling. We all have the desire to be needed by someone. Some of us fill this desire of being wanted by earthly things and earthly love.

We fail to realize that God wants us. He truly loves and cares for us.

This gaping hole that needs to be filled, God can fill. While God is my number one, He blessed me with a godly, God-fearing daddy to fill the need of an earthly father. A daddy who truly wants me while my bi-logical dad could care less.

My daddy is my hero. My daddy is my only daddy. I love him for all he is. I love him and am grateful that he wanted me.

God Bless,
Kaitie

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Sunday's and Country

Sunday Afternoon's and Country Music.

Life can't get much better than this.

God Bless,
Kaitie