I'll Be There (But I'll Be Wearing Sweatpants): Finding Unfiltered, Real-Life Friendships in This Crazy, Chaotic World

by Amy Weatherly

If you’re feeling lonely even though you’re surrounded by people, please learn to excuse yourself from tables that weren’t made for you.

Somebody builds you up. You aren’t accustomed to being put on a pedestal, so you tear yourself down a notch or two and end up back on the ground rolling around in the dirt right where you believe you belong.

God did not create you, craft you, and carefully plan out each line on the palm of your hand so you could shut down and hide away because you got rejected. God did not put all that wonderful work into you so you could walk away and decide you weren’t good enough. God did not meticulously make you so you could criticize, tear down, and condemn every single one of your quirks. And they are indeed quirks, not flaws.

Anything made by people has design flaws. Anything made by God is flawless.

We need to love others fiercely, just like we need to be loved fiercely.