Herein is Love

A beach with a million grains of sand, a God whose love is reaching out to all through this glorious scene that He created with care, a mother with love in her heart walking next to her little boy, a sky painted with a golden yellow sun telling the world goodnight.

My heart: full of love. This is what I see when I look at this photograph.

Lately I have been realizing how there are people who fail me, and circumstances that make life bumpy. Whether my people are not there for me to talk to when I need them to be, or they do something unexpected and cause me pain there seems to be things that get in the way of allowing me to completely rely on them. Then there are times when nothing seems to be going right, and there are many days when the things of this world are not sure. Through these failures, and rough days I have also been experiencing a God that cares so much more then all of the things that seem to be falling apart. A God that sent His only Son to a dark world, full of people that would reject Him.Yet, He knew this would be the only way to save His children [us] from sin, and show us His never ending love.

I can only imagine how God must feel when He sees us hurting, and how much He wants to take us home and curl up with us saying, "My child, tell me all about it. It's going to be okay because I love you."

I've been reading The Desire of Ages, in the chapter, Unto a Savior the picture of love given blows me away, "The heart of the human father yearns over his son. he looks into the face of his little child, and trembles at the thought of life's peril. He longs to shield his dear one from Satan's power, to hold him back from temptations and conflict. To meet bitterer conflict and a more fearful risk, God gave his only-be Son, that the path of life might be made sure for our little ones. "Herein is love, "Wonder, O heavens! and be astonished, O earth!" 


God has given to us, more love then we can ever fully grasp. In times of solitude, and connection to Him, I can feel this love. Just like in the photograph, and my heart is full.