The Secret Love Place

The best thing I ever, ever did in my whole life? In 1994 I fell passionately in love with Jesus.

That's it. Oh, and I stayed in love with Him. That's important. No, vital.

It's the staying in love that gets you through all the painful pruning He does. Snip. Snip. Ouch! Snip.

It's the staying in love which helps you forgive people and circumstances and yes, God Himself, when He uses everything to test you. To see if what He spent weeks teaching you sunk in this time and became a solid, permanent part of you.

It's the Love Place where you can go when you feel insecure, then feel insecure no more because God reminds you how much you're loved. Today. This moment.

 It's the Love Place which eventually expands, spreading to give you a peace which travels with you, even to the deadliest battle lines. 

And it's that Love Place, the God sitting there waiting for you, that brings a sweetness, a we'll-get-through-this, which wraps around your heart, buffering the hardest blows and reminding you of the love that is behind all the death, all the growth, all the becoming.

And it's from that Love Place where you can reach out to others and share what you discovered there.




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"He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty." ... Psalm 91:1