Many of my conversations with people I love lately have been about pain and suffering.

Intamacy with the Lord seems to be the answer to everything.

When things are tough. When you are lonely. When recieving love from people is hard. When feeling rejected. When caught up in habitual sin. When past pain surfaces. When there seems to be no hope.

Intamacy with the Lord is the answer to the above whens.

What does that look like? Well, what does it look like in any other relationship. Spending time with one another, letting the other in to your most painful feelings, having the other be the first person you want to talk to in tough times or in joyful times, knowing the other is there, and being ther for the other. Its the same with Jesus. Spend time with Him. He will make the tough things easy. He will place the lonely into his family. He loves you with an unconditional love. He accepts you. He is the deliever. He is the healer and refiner. He is hope.

Oh how much He wants to spend time with you. He sits there and he waits.

When you see a friend in pain. When you see a friend hurting. How much do you care? How much do you want to see this person okay? How much do you pray for, love on, help this person? Then how much more does the Lord???

God is here.