There are times in your life when you get to cross paths with people who spend their whole lives making other people's lives better.

If you're lucky, you get to be loved by them. You get to do life with them. You get to experience their special type of magic.

Homemade sunshine. Unicorns. Four Leaf Clovers.

Their type of love that makes everything feel okay, even when you 100% convinced that the world is ending. The type of love that makes your favorite food and listens to you freak the eff out about the same thing 19000 times because she knows its the only way to get over this ridiculous hump...and also that you're a slow learner.  It's the love that looks like binge watching tv with you when she should probably be doing 100000 other things, or cracking her heart open and showing you the insides. It's the love that looks like knowing how sad and broken you are and letting you live with her.

It's texting you form one room away that she likes when you're here because it makes the house feel full. (Which makes you cry, one room away, because you're world feels like its a total mess and you just need to hear that you belonged somewhere).

Or when she grabs you by the pants pocket, in order to stop you from yelling at a little league umpire. Or when she choses to get in ring and fight for you in ways you don't even know about. And about a billion other things.

It's kind of love that if you asked her about it, she would never remember these specific instances because her life if full of sweet, small reminders that Jesus has our back.

It is the closest thing to Agape love that you can possible experience. It's rare, and crazy that best thing that can happen to you.

And you wonder how you can become more like that. How you can love people the same way.

And the truth is, you can't. There are people who are gifted at a lot of things, but the people who love you like Jesus does? You can't replicate that.

It's like the secret sauce Jesus concocted and sprinkled into their heads and hearts before they were born.

These people are the people that when struggle comes their way, you cry with them, you hop on in to the trenches with a shovel, you get on your knees for them every day, go to bat for them. They are the type of people you would take a bullet for,  the people you'd bear a burden for and not have second thought about it.

These are also the people that sometimes other people don't understand. Other people are confused by how they are wired. Other people will spend a lot of time trying to make our people feel like they're not good enough. They will consistently try to snuff out their lovely lights because those dummy's know that our people have the power to really transform that world. And you want to punch those dummy's directly in the face.

How dare they make our people feel like they are anything less than amazing. Any thing else than the amazing thing God created them to be.  You see those dummy's trying to slow them down, and it makes you sad. It makes you jaded. It makes you wonder why there are so many jerks in the world.

But sometimes you see people show up, to pay back, in a small way, all the love she's given to them. People who have chosen to stand in solidarity with her as she figures out her life.

the whole thing makes you weepy because hormones. But also because when you have the opportunity to love people like that, you want them to feel how special they are. How much they are needed in this chaotic, weird world. They bring the light. They bring the love. The bring the promise of a better tomorrow. They also bring work gloves because they're do-ers.

I know that I'm infinitely better for this kind of friendship. The kind that I certainly don't deserve. It has morphed into family, and if for an only child who went her whole life wanting  a sister, Jesus has responded in the best way. Chosen Sister. It is one of the things I keep closest to my heart. One of the things I've learned the most from, and one of the things that has transformed me into a better human.

So, if you know someone like this, count yourself among the lucky.  Not everyone gets to have that in a lifetime.


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