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God is Love

I look at each of my friends and I know that what I see is so much more beautiful, in and out, than what they see. I wish I could show to them what it is I see, so that they could understand just what a beautiful person they are and how much I love them and how much I long just to be close to them, in body and in spirit, and to be their best friend. I want to just love people fully, unabashedly, shamelessly, from the bottom of my heart.

 Sometimes, people come along who try to show me how beautiful I am from their perspective. And though I have a difficult time grasping it, like my friends do when I do the same for them, I really appreciate the effort, and sometimes they have been particularly successful and it blows my mind just how differently they see me. And I really love that feeling.

 BUT I gotta say. The one and only person who has ever effectively shown me this is my Heavenly Father. His love for me just blows my mind. He sees all my hidden scars and flaws and insecurities--even more than any of my closest friends do--and yet, He loves me. He sees me each time I fall and fail, and He still says I'm worth every drop of bloody sweat. He also sees the times I succeed, and even though they're little successes, He celebrates every time. He is never anything but encouraging. What He sees in me is so unbelievably far beyond my comprehension. The song is rightly worded "AMAZING Grace"! No words in the English language capture the vastness of the love of our God for us.

 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or peril, or nakedness, or sword? ...Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

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