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The time God touched me and made me laugh when everyone else was crying.
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Just wanted to share this little story of how God reached my heart one time... when I didn't want Him to.

Sounds weird, right?

Why would anyone NOT want to feel God's touch? The mighty one who created absolutely everything, He wants to reach out and you don't want Him to, are you CRAZY?!

Well, it went down like this.

One evening, a small group of young pre-teen girls were gathered in this one lady's house. We were having our own little church meeting of sorts. Talking about God, reading some Bible verses... and singing songs.

The lady had a tiny guitar and started playing and singing a kind of sad worship song. All the other girls in this group got tears streaming down their faces. Quiet sniffles occasionally overlapping the sounds from the guitar.

God's presence was strong with all us that evening.

I could feel my throat tighten up too. Tears wanting to well up. But I refused to cry. "God's made everyone else cry. I don't wanna cry. God's NOT gonna make ME cry!" I thought.

The song ended, the sniffles continued.

And then.

I felt a tug on the corner of my lips. The briefest smile. And then, suddenly, I burst out laughing! Laughing and laughing and unable to control myself. Stumbling across the little living-room because I just couldn't sit still.

Didn't even notice any of the other girls at that point, but I'm sure they must have looked at me like:
“What’s going on with that weirdo?”.

Almost knocked over a plant before, my best friend at the time, smiled and said:
"Ok, sit down, you... you laugh-bug." XD

I finally stopped laughing and sat back down on the floor... embarrassed.

Don't remember much else from that evening, but that moment got forever stuck in my memories.

It was like God was saying:
"Oh yeah? You don't wanna cry, huh?" and decided to touch my soul with His finger and infused me with laughter instead. I can just imagine Him smirking as he did that. X3

This moment always reminds me that God has a great sense of humor.

Hehe X3

So, it's not that I didn't want God to touch me, per se. It's just that I didn't want Him to touch me in the form of crying, that's all.

So, if you wanna take anything away from this. A moral for the story, if you will. It's that God can and will reach you. Even in ways you don't expect. Or perhaps especially in ways that you don't expect. And that's a good thing =D

So don't fight Him. Let Him flow and do his thing. I guarantee you'll love it.

Because He loves you ❤ ^_^
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