We are Loved

"I have loved you with an everlasting love."

                                                         Jeremiah 31:3

Isn't it incredible?

Eternal.

Perfect.

Unconditional.

We are loved.

Today, is our last day together. Over the last month we've visited a wedding, a leper, and a virtuous woman. We've beheld God's glory and praised Him in Psalms and singing.  We've been lavished in His love, filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.  We've received it and returned it.  We've been the outpouring of it in our sacred homes, ministering to our husbands and children.  We've turned with filled hands to the needy and doled it all out freely. We are walking in His everlasting love.

Isn't it glorious?

Freeing.

Filling.

Unending.

We are loved.

This profound truth is more than I can bear.  It meets me wherever I am.  It is the best canopy over my life. No wonder the psalmist sings for joy in the shadow of His wings! (Psalm 63:7)

Beloved, sing for joy! Praise Him for His everlasting love.  It is a perfect love given freely to an imperfect girl.  To a wife who blows her stack {You just told them we'd take two Chinese boys?} or to a momma who loses her mind {Because you have to have permission to light stuff on fire!}. To a girl who fears for her health or the health of her children--or both. To the girl who longs for her husband to hear her heart.  To the one who worries about finances. And the one who worries about everything. To the one who feels self-sufficient and strong.  And to the weaker one who wrestles with her robe of Strength and Dignity. To the one tanned from vacation and the one who didn't get to take one. To the every girl and the super girl.  To all of us imperfect girls . . . we are loved with an everlasting love.

Let our joyous songs rise to Him this morning. 

We are loved.