false promises

[mary]

i agreed with you when you wrote it and i still do. i just received one yesterday, and it was beautiful until it got to the part where it said you have to tell nine people that you love them and... --well it was a woman friend in the Lord, and in sending me that email, in the email it said she loved me--or something similar.

believe me, i have no problem telling my women friends that i love them, but i didn't think we had gotten close enough to say that. of course i loved her in the Lord, but this demand { I MUST, FOR THE MIRACLE TO HAPPEN} was wrong. what i ended up doing was replying by telling her what i liked about the message, and there was beautiful art, and i told her i loved her. 

i did not send it to anyone else. i kept the email though, because if i ignored the threat {if you don't..., you won't get...} it was a truly beautiful email. it had almost breathtaking artwork and it worked animation in it into a holy dance, at one point literally.

i knew she sent it to be a blessing, but i would have felt loved if it hadn't included the false promise.

mary