The Agape Letter

Today I had received an Agape Letter from a friend and a brother that had not been that close to me for a while after some 'life' turns. Now I am always the one writing letters to people, but today I had received one...

The word agape means, brotherly love, in all the essence of the word.

Now when I was younger I had this very deep, pure love for people that would somehow leave me in tears for absolute no reason than for me loving them. It would feel like the walls were closing in on me and I would literally fall in love, in agape love, for the people I held so highly esteemed in my life. It was a sense of honour.

From that, gifts came. Letters came. Hugs and kisses came into their lives.

One day my youth leader (at that time) kissed me on my hand and he said something like "Thank you". To some extent it felt weird because of stigmas in society of males showing affection to males, but something felt right. It was that scripture, Romans 6:6, revealing itself to me. Then years after the scripture 1 John 3:16 really became my heart, my favourite scripture.

So I am reading this letter and I am moved. The memories of what God had done in my heart and the memories we had build as brothers really came back to me. Holding my heart, I kind of lost my breath.

Restoration is an amazing experience and God can bring a friend, a family member closer to you than you have ever been before, through humility of two hearts coming to an agreement on forgiveness!

Forgiveness is beautiful and bitterness brings dryness to the bones. Proverbs 17:22.

Thank you for the letter my friend...