I think giving a hug to someone can say alot more than words most of the time, it can make a big diference to them too and you might not even realise it....i kno this from experience ;D hugs are awesome!!!

I wanted to start this thread because it cud be somewhere to come and just say wots happenin with you and have ppl show they care by sharing a hug and giving some encouragment. I think we need to build each other up more in our lives...

I Thessalonians 5:11, NIV.
"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."

So just tell someone that u appreciate something they have done for you lately, maybe a kind word, they listened to you or gave you some of their time, let them know here and share a hug. If you know someone on the boards who is feelin a little down leave them a small message or verse of encouragement, let them know ur thinking of them. Really anything at all that will make someone feel good about themselves and show even just a tiny amount of God's amazing and unlimitless love :) through His children.

hmmm.. you know who you are. so.. thanks

very cool idea Laura. :) i can't wait to see what comes of this thread.

i would like to say thanks to Mr. John316 for the note he sent me... it really made my day... (yes, i'm very easy to please ::] ) :D

OH yes! thank as well for that! It was maybe Friday that I got it. and it was one of those days where I felt like crud

what a good idea!

I thank everyone on here who has ever encouraged me, prayed for me, gave me constructive help on a picture or writing. It has all been a big help.

WOOHOO!!! glad u guys think this is a good idea.....wasn't sure whether i'd get many posting here....but thanks ;D

thanks so much for posting!!!!!!

I say the same thing...everyone loves hugs!!

*give hugs to any random person I encounter*

**gives hug too rachel and weebird**

*needs hug*
I'm sorry, I'm just frustraited with life. I have two things assigned to me: help my friends, work towords making a contribution to christian games(attempt, to get God respectably in there). And while working towords the latter is difficult, it isn't half as bad as the first. I simply don't want to deal with these people any more. So many stupid things happen that I wind up completely exhausted just trying to keep up. So many things to worry about, so much drama it's appauling. While I know that their decisions are honestly theres to make, I also know that I need to attempt to help them whenever possible. Unfortunatly, my patience has been spent for a couple years now. I just want all these issues to go away and let me find a friend that it is actually relaxing to be around. Sometimes I swear I don't have any in that catagory. I have in the past, but the last one moved a 6 hour drive away and is extremely buissy (college, oh how I loath thee). It's strange how you find the best of friends just in time to be seperated. I just need a hug and a chance to relax. Not just be distracted long enough to numb, but to actually mend. I wish I could do what I did last summer and go spend 4 days alone in a cabin reading the bible, seperate from the world. But I can't for multiple reasons. So in any case, pray that I can get a chance to relax and that I will once again have the patience to deal with everything. Oh, don't forget the wise decisions for my friends. One came out of the closet, one has some sort of unresolved issue with me (i still have no idea what happend), and another is entering a crucial life stage (philosophically, he's following in my footsteps, but I only just barely made it out of several mental traps that are by their nature detrimented by outside help). Yeah, I'm wiped out, need prayer. I'm going to sleep, good night all.
*gives all a hug*

dang! I'll be prayin for you zilchr0, I know what it is like to feel drained by everyone around you, a friend of mine feels the same way a lot of the time and I am always the one she talks to, so when I pray for her I will pray for you! ;)

*hugs johnny*


Luke 6:38, TLB. "For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give—large or small—will be used to measure what is given back to you."


Zilch you don't need to be sorry about feeling like that....it sounds like your giving a lot of yourself to others and then having no-one there to fill you back up again...God knows wot your going thru and is there for you, as are ppl here and i'm sure that there are many reading this and praying that you get some time to rest and find new strength :)


Psalm 138:3, TLB. "When I pray, You answer me, and encourage me by giving me the strength I need."

*gives Zilch a BIG hug*

Wow zilchr0... sounds very much like me. Was a time when my Youth Group where all involved with things that anyone in their right mind shouldn't be. Everything I said or did had no effect. I could see the danger, yet they couldn't. So incredibly frustrating!
The more people I meet, the more I like my PC!
Anyway has a happy ending to it, somehow, somewhere, by some reason they stopped all that and wised up. Don't think it had anything to do with me tho.

Let me leave you with this: When Jesus was in the garden of gethsemane. When the ppl came to take him away, his friends ran off and deserted him. they went back to their lives and even denied knowing him.
Christ knows what this is like and He is there.

I will pray you get the time you need to relax.

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Good luck with the computer gaming! We need all the Christian game makers we can get! (you could always come over here and work for me when I get started ;))

Thanks all, so now I have a question. What do all of the rest of you need prayer/hugs for?

Thanks all, so now I have a question. What do all of the rest of you need prayer/hugs for?Wow, thanx for askin! lol personally im suffering a heart break, i kno im to young and i never wanted to get into a relationship for that reason. but i did, and it was with my best friend of all people! Well, I realli realli like him , i mean i realli think i love him. and all my friends keep tellin me that im only 14 and i shouldn't worry about it. and i realli think that this was an experience i needed becuz, before i got into this relationship, i had a great one with my mother. then i started sneaking around and i couldn't tell her anithing...well i told her the other nite everything that happened between me and this guy, and she comforted me. I love that my relationship with my mom is rebuilt, but im still missing my best friend. He's been being a really big jerk to me and he's turning into a huge liar. I just wish he'd stop being insecure and get over hinself, and his "Image". Oh and get out of his girlfriend's butt! And realize that if he keeps going the way he's going then he'll lose me as a best friend, and he can't have that with anyone else, because i kno so much about him, i mean im the only one who know's that he doesn't hate his dad as much as he tells everyone he does. and i think that im starting to really hate him as a person, and that's the worst thing i could ever do! I really want him to get hurt as badly as i was or worse...but mostly i want him to just realize what he's doing is wrong and that he needs to come back to Jesus... cuz he's deffinately moving further away form any relationship with God he ever had! well, please just pray for him, and for me that i can have the strength and patience to deal with him, and also that i can move on and get my life rite with God. Thanx in advance!

Hehe, ah, dating your best friend. Such a potentially disasterous buisness. Done it once, um, actually the only dating I have ever done. Senior Year of high school, and let me say: That was to young. It's rare that a serious relationship can develope well in school, but in the meantime remember that God is in control and has marvelous things planned for you. Just remember patience with situations and people. And we'll be praying! *hug*

Hehe, ah, dating your best friend. Such a potentially disasterous buisness. Done it once, um, actually the only dating I have ever done. Senior Year of high school, and let me say: That was to young. It's rare that a serious relationship can develope well in school, but in the meantime remember that God is in control and has marvelous things planned for you. Just remember patience with situations and people. And we'll be praying! *hug**hugs back* thank you so much! hehehe I love hugz!!! lol

It's strange how you find the best of friends just in time to be seperated.

it's so true! a little before i left the states to move here i happened to become friends w/ people who i didn't really know before and it was all right before i left and now i'll be leaving brazil after being here 2 years and i'm still making good friends and i'm leaving in 2 months! so sad!

...

anyways, sometimes i could really use a hug. it's amazing what hugs can do! don't you guys agree w/ me?!
ever since i've been here (the last year and a half), i haven't had anybody to really "talk" to and so it's been pretty hard. i think i've mainly just written stuff down in a diary just cause i had no one to talk to. God has been there but i think that God knows that we humans need other humans too, make sense?
a lotta times it's hard for me to open up and tell people what i'm feeling, i'm an insecure person and care too much about what other people think of me. i hate it!!!
i don't know what else to say. at the moment i don't have anything in particular, just generally. so, ya :)

*hugs to all my fellow panheads!*

God has been there but i think that God knows that we humans need other humans too, make sense?
He seems to prefer to use us to do his work. Makes us worth something if we serve him, our entire purpose in life.

anyways, sometimes i could really use a hug. it's amazing what hugs can do! don't you guys agree w/ me?!



oh yeah i agree!!! hugs are amazing and awesome and make you feel loved....something that everyone need to know sometimes :)

**hugs everyone**

i'm prayin for you guys!

i can tell you brazilmk that being patient for things sometimes is hard but when you pray and wait for God to answer i can tell you its well worth it.....just to wait for His answer and see wot He has in store for you ;D I waited so long for a great friend that i could talk to about everything and who shared similar interests to me and most importantly my love of Christ, it took a loooong time for me to find that person and ALOT of praying but i'm so greatful that i waited until God brought that person into my life!

Always remember when u pray that God will answer, might not be right away but He WILL answer and the results are ALWAYS awesome and most of the time very unexpected! so never give up!

**hugs everyone again**

i can tell you brazilmk that being patient for things sometimes is hard but when you pray and wait for God to answer i can tell you its well worth it.....just to wait for His answer and see wot He has in store for you ;D I waited so long for a great friend that i could talk to about everything and who shared similar interests to me and most importantly my love of Christ, it took a loooong time for me to find that person and ALOT of praying but i'm so greatful that i waited until God brought that person into my life!

Always remember when u pray that God will answer, might not be right away but He WILL answer and the results are ALWAYS awesome and most of the time very unexpected! so never give up!

**hugs everyone again**

ya, i've had good friends like that before - which were also in fact an answer to prayer but then i moved and it's hard to keep relationships like that when you're so far away. part of the thing is that for the past 2 years i've been trying to learn portuguese so it's not like i can really say everything that's on my mind anyways in another language. but i think once i go back to the states i'll have my friends again that i had before i left there and i'll have somebody to talk to again!! :D thanks for the all the encouragement you guys!

*hugs* (is it considered wrong to post in this thread w/o doing that? lol, j/k)

isn't it funny how one day everything can be going great, and the next you're so ticked you could just strangle everyone?


bleah.

Uh... I'm pretty stressed out right now.. Any one who wants me to talk about it needs to PM me. (pretty serious situtation-not about me tho. one of my friends)

i need a hug. i just got dumped..... i thought it was fine and it just randomly ended for some bogus reason. thx for the hugs.

*HUGZ* and lotz of them to ya half-panhead

<<<< needs a hug, rachel rejected me

**hugs, hugs, hugs, hugs....HUGS**

I Peter 3:3-4, NIV. "Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight."

I think that is a very awesome verse....as i know there are a few ppl...ok lets make that more than a few who for some odd reason think that it's only beauty on the outside that counts....and if they aren't considered beautiful by others they will never get a g/f or b/f! Beauty really is on the inside....focus on God and give ur all to him and He WILL make sure that all your needs are provided for! It's at the times when ur focused most on Him that His beauty shines through you...

Psalms 90:17, NKJV "And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us"

**hugs**

Hey ya'll you remeber my situation i told you about? well mi 'friend', i dont thin khe even likes me as a person animore! and i didnt do anithing to him but try to be nice...oh and i talked to his girlfriend. is it wrong to want to be friends with one of your friend's girlfriends? ger! he confuses me! i need help/advice/A LOT of hugs!!

Hugs for all, everyone needs a hug !!!!

ALOT of hugs comin ur way Dee...sorry that that guy is making u feel bad *HUGS*

sowwy dee, *hugs*

I need a hug... I only have one friend, and I only get to see her about once a year, so it gets really lonely... *sigh*

**hugs pidget** im sorry im here for you

hey Piget....i'm ur friend!!!! ;D *gives Pidget a friendly hug*


remember God is the best friend u can have...with him no matter how alone u are u will never be lonely :)

Group hug!
*tackles pidget*
You have lots of friends here, very "special" ones at that...

yes we are all "special" here in our own unique ways ::]

**hugs for all** i need to oget more IM names so i can talk too ppl

Group hug!
*tackles pidget*
You have lots of friends here, very "special" ones at that...
"special" is definitely the word.... :D


*gives pidget a hug* i completely understand...

Awww... :-* Thanks guys...

anytime... :D

i need a hug, i missed the chat with lori.

*hugs to ppl cuz i'm pretty new*

**hugs too all who need it**

i wna share a

*HUGE HUG*

with everyone here on panheads...just cus i feel like it ;D

*HUGE HUGS*

For Z_P900

Hugs for all who need them, God bless you and may your lvies be fruitful.