On Monday, I had coffee with a new friend of mine.  It is the kind of friendship I crave… within minutes of “hello” we were talking about the hard stuff. 
 
Fast forward an hour or so,  I shared my struggle with forgiveness…not understanding grace.  That I don’t “feel” forgiven.  “It’s like I can’t even fathom being forgiven for ALL of my sins before they even happened…by someone who didn’t even know me yet!”
 

did you catch it?

 
“It’s not that He didn’t know you…it’s that you don’t know Him.”
 
The conviction was suffocating… it still is. 
 
so that’s where I’m at.  Processing, repenting, and rebuilding a relationship I didn’t even acknowledge as broken.