Training camp…filled with information, getting to know my squad mates, and some awesome time with God! While training camp included sleeping in tents, our stuff getting musty from the rain and humidity, eating new foods, and physical exercises, those weren’t the best and most important things. Some of the big topics for me this week have been God’s love and how God sees me. I’ve known for a long time that God loves me, but I had that feeling of not being good enough. How could God love and accept me with the things I’ve done and the things I still do? I buried that inside not really letting me admit the truth of how I felt and thought to myself. When I read in the Bible that God loves me, I didn’t really sit and think about what that meant and looked like. It was just an “okay, I know that” kind of thing.
But this week, it’s clicked more. God loves me even though I don’t always do what I should. He loves me even thought I don’t always have the best thoughts or intentions. I’m His daughter! I have an image in my head of a little girl running through a field with her arms outstretched and saying “Daddy!” reaching to hug her dad. The Dad (God) has His arms outstretched as well ready to catch and embrace her. God sees me as beautiful, loved, and precious. I still mess up, but I don’t have to be scared or continuously feel guilty. We can’t fully understand God’s love in our human bodies, but we get a beautiful glimpse of it.
