Last week we dropped a Love Bomb on Laura. She is an art journalism student and an oil painter, and she is slowly going blind. I am still choked up about this. Maybe it’s that she’s dealing with my greatest fear, maybe that she’s an art student like me, maybe it’s simply that she’s an absolutely gorgeous young woman losing her ability to see beautiful things. Maybe I’m still stumbling over her gracious humility in having to take the bus, and shower with her eyes closed.
Regardless, reading Laura’s blog reminded me how temporary this world is, and called me out on the unworthy weight I give to what I see.
Laura, this is a thank you for being faithful. You get it. You understand the world, your Maker, your purpose. It takes most of us a lifetime to come to this place, and I would argue that you see things more clearly than we do.
Our Love Bomb team left over 160 comments on Laura’s blog last week, and left her overwhelmed. In her words, “I had a truly difficult night last night, mostly due to family stuff and an especially emotionally trying day dealing with eye stuff. Those come up infrequently now, but yesterday happened to be such a day. I was shocked, and then incredibly loved and touched, reading all the comments… many of which brought tears to my eyes. It could not have been done on a more perfect day. I will be reaping the blessings of this love bomb for a long, long time to come.”
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To the rest of you, the world needs you. I have a challenge. Who are you leading? Who is behind you? Who has acted out this week because you challenged them? There are hundreds of thousands more people like Laura that are in desperate need of encouragement and the strength of a community behind them.
Today, I ask you to find a project to expand. Be responsible for growing an established movement. Love Bomb is one of these movements, and there are others. Operation Beautiful is one that we will be partnering with for this week’s Love Bomb Mission. Operation Beautiful is a collection of thousands of people on a mission to end self-negativity. They leave post-it’s in various places with encouraging notes reminding whoever stumbles upon them that they are beautiful. I am thrilled for our joint mission with them as we combine our efforts to remind a girl this week that she is truly loved and beautiful.
If you want to help grow Love Bomb, comment here or get a hold of me on Twitter (@laurenlankford). There are easy, easy ways to go one step further and drastically expand the reach of our Love Bombs within minutes. I am more than happy to give you the suggestions and tools.
Please, don’t be passive. When something tugs at your heartstrings, re-blog it. Re-tweet it. Share the fan page on Facebook with your friends. Forward an email. Tell someone. 2010 has made it easy for you.
I love you all – thank you again, Love Bomb team, for all that you’ve done.
Lauren
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