I’m not much of a sap but this one got me. Real bad! I cried like a baby next to stranger on the flight to Chicago.
He must have thought I was a crazy.
It was comforting to my soul to know my dad loved me this much, to be that precious to someone. I was so special and I would be truly missed if I were never to return home again.
These words that came streaming out my father’s heart shook me. They were so deep and profound. His words were a wanting made evident to a rejected heart, words that sent a warm sweetness to a frigid bitter wound.
They were the words of my heavenly father flowing through my earthly one.
This truth makes me cry so hard.
Why?
because I know how much my dad loves me. He would go to the ends of the earth to come find me. He would stop at nothing to rescue me. He fights for me and loves me with all his heart.
Isn’t this a great portrayal of how my Jesus loves me?
And yet my earthly father is imperfect he messes up, he’s made mistakes but Jesus is NOT imperfect and he will never make a mistake with me or my heart.
If my imperfect earthly father can be so in love with his daughter then how much more is Jesus?
I can’t begin to fathom.
I am so lost in this profound earth shattering truth.
God’s heart aches for me when I am away from him. He yearns for my return when I wander. There is a deep void when I am missing.
I am loved… madly, deeply, utterly, and perfectly loved by God. He is crazy about me. The sweetest thing about this is that i cannot earn this kind of love it is freely given because I am his.
When I read my dad’s letter it was like Jesus himself coming up off the paper and whispering love and beauty into my heart.
Thank you dad for being a portrayal of Jesus and loving me the way that he would! Those words that you wrote to me began to mend a wound that I have let fester for far too long.
A sweet romance that I have been waiting for has finally taken off in my heart and I have a feeling Jesus will not relent this year until He’s absolutely sure I know that I am truly loved and absolutely beautiful in his eyes.
My dance with Jesus has begun
