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Love Letter Dear Lord, I woke up this morning and felt like climbing on the highest mountain top to declare my love for you but I decided to write you a letter instead. I have always wondered what love is, not recognizing that it was right there in my face the whole time and I was just not looking hard enough. Now that I see it, its like I am intoxicated. You are constantly on my mind and I find myself smiling at ridiculous things because I'm thinking of you. I can't describe the way I feel because there are no words that measure up to this depth of feeling. I just wanted to write this letter to thank you. Thank you for the way you hold me in your arms, the way you gently lift my chin and wipe my tears away, the way you put me on your lap and gently put every strand of my hair in place, the way you grab me when I am about to walk into danger, the way you forgive me again and again and again, the way you love me! Sometimes I am indignant that I have friends who don't see you the way I do. How could they stare into those tear-strained eyes of yours and that blood-streaked face when you were crucified for us and say that you don't exist? How could anyone be so ungrateful after discovering that in your will you left everything for us and in order for your will to be activated, you had to die a horrible death? How is it possible to be so blind and unfeeling??? But you smile at me and say that it is not for me to worry about. You have everything under control, and in your own time, you will appear to each and every one of them and they will come to know you as I have done. Then they would be able to see why I take such bold steps and why I smile so much. Lord teach me to love like you do! Teach me to accept everyone with all their faults as you continue to accept me with mine. Your everlasting love makes me so happy to sing to you every morning! There is no other feeling in this world that can match this natural high. I can do all things through you! Its a fantastic thing to be so intimate with you! I laugh when I hear of churches that tell me I can't enter because I don't have a head covering or I am dirty because I have my period. Don't they know this kind of love I share with you? Don't they know that my Father will accept me in whichever way I come to him--naked or dressed in the most expensive clothes? Don't they have this wonderful intimacy with you? Don't they see that I come to the Father not on my own merit and authority but on the merit and authority of Jesus Christ? I really wonder! Again you tell me to calm down. People have their own different ways of worshipping their God and I have to accept that. And I do. I am just happy that I have no strict restrictions on how much I can love you and in what way I choose to show it! I love you with my whole heart, my whole soul and my whole mind. No one accepts me unconditionally the way you do. I only wish that I could put this into adequate words for my loved ones just so they can see how much you love them and how patiently you wait for them to allow you to take them into your arms and make everything alright. I know that someday they will and until then I will keep praying and loving. I love you. We need articles, poetry and
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