What is Unconditional, Friendly Love?-Part 2

         "We Love because He (God) first Loved us."

         I have so many entries to write still but this one has to be the other longest and the others can be short. This entry is another story I promised about the way God is showing me that unconditional love can be given and/or received. I will try to tell it the best I can with out giving out any names or situations that has happened recently but doubt if I can do that especially with the situation part.
         One of my friends has this business/ministry/ TV show that he runs and is the founder of. It has been going on for about 4 years and it encourages me a lot to go after my own dream because everything he is doing was his dream to start with. It has to do a lot with huntin' and to make this story even more interesting I will say I had my doubts like any other person but that is when I was still in college and I didn't want it to happen because he might be moving from where he was and I might have been moving to where he is now. We would have missed each other by a year in other words. To be on the safe side I had my doubts.
         Once I moved to AR and things were back to normal for me I started to encourage and talk to him a bit more and follow him too. I would watch his little videos that he would make and put on youtube and so on. As I was living in AR and still to this day, his show is still growing bigger and better everyday but in some cases I would like to think it is because of prayer that I did along with the hard work him and his team did. He wasn't pushing it much at the start but as the years went on and he was learning more of what to do and getting things he needed he started doing a lot more. He really got to me when he went on TV last Fall for a season. Didn't get to watch any of his shows on TV so it is still hard for me to believe but it happened. :) Now the show and ministry is one of the biggest huntin' shows online.
           The show is mainly about huntin' and land management for deer mainly. It is full of Christian based and family based vaules. It has his family in it and the team is not to share their faith in it. It is about God's Creation and the time spent out in it while huntin' and plantin'. The staff has grown up some way in the outdoors and loves it. It can give you tips and ideas on how to hunt or plant things for deer to come to. It has grown to 5 people to 19,000 people and 4 staff to 10 staff. It is growing and I'm proud and it makes me what to start my dream.
            Back to the unconditional, friendly love and what it has to do with this show is a lot with me sitting on the sidelines and watching it grow bigger and better every season. They are in their 4th season. I'm supporting them behind the big picture. I don't care if I ever get to be on the show or if I ever get to see the land or other things. I'm just supporting through my words and prayers for them. It has been hard in ways for me because there is that hope that just someday maybe things will die down and get easier for the host and he could focus on other things but then I have to remember it's not about a person, it is about God and for his Glory. Yes, I am his friend and I'm there to support him but I don't want the frame. The team and God deserve it, not me. I support it because I want to do it. I have seen the impact it has made in other people's lives, my life, and his life and I want that to happen for other people. I want a impact to be made on people and this is just a different way to reach a different group of people that are passionate about huntin'. I just have to remember and get back on track and I am fine. I might not be getting any response back or I will every once in awhile but I have to remember it is not for me. Hopefully, it will help that person and that is all that matters. GOD KNOWS AND HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT NEEDS TO KNOW THAT PERSON'S HEART.
            We all get into that selfish desire about what is in it for me if I support them or do this and that for them and really it isn't about that. In this situation, it is about showing and telling people God's Glory and that the show is growing because people are liking that. Unconditional, friendly love is being there for your friend or people even through the hardest times whether it is for them while they are trying new things to grow or waiting on things to you wanting what is not yours right now or may never will be (aka selfish desires). You are there for them for a reason right now and it might be for 4 years or it might be for a 4 months. GOD HAS A REASON FOR EVERYTHING AND AS GOD'S PEOPLE WE SHOULD LOVE JUST BECAUSE THAT IS HIS PURPOSE AND MISSION FOR US, TO SHARE HIS GOOD NEWS WITH ALL THE WORLD! Other people might get things out of that love or they might not it is up to God and them in the end.
           
             I will go ahead and give you all the names if you want to look the show up:

Website: www.thg-tv.com

Facebook at: The Huntin' Grounds

YouTube at: search "The Huntin' Grounds".