If you have stumbled upon my blog, Welcome! This is really not a blog though. It's just a few posts about how God used a book -
He Loves Me - to break through the veil of my misunderstanding. He shattered the glass wall that I was trying so desperately to peer through. If you haven't read this book, do it now. You will experience freedom and peace and be baptized in the assurance of love and security that pours forth from the God who always has and always will stubbornly love you.
If you just got here and want to read about the mind jolt impact of that book on my life, read
“My Glass Wall - Shattered!” If you want to jump ahead to where all this has brought me, read
“Focus Our Rethinking.” If you are wondering why this matters so much to me or how any of this has made a difference in my life, read
“So What?”
In time, I hope to include more of the wrestling behind my questions. Many authors have truly impacted me as I carefully reconsidered and rethought much of my previous thinking. Several of the dozens of books that I have read were repeat reads for me. With many, I finished the last page only to begin again. My mind has been marinating under the scholarship of these great thinkers for nearly a decade, now, and I have found that much of their verbiage is becoming mine. In no way do I desire to take credit for what I am trying to summarize within this blog. I give the credit to God for His gentle nudging, for leading me to this book or that one, and to those whose tutelage I have sat under for these past wonderful years. I am so grateful for their work and also for the friends, who have been safe places for me to land with the vulnerability of all my questions.
Please do not expect weekly posts. I simply wanted to put my story out there because I know there are many more like me. This blog is not about promoting myself or my story though. From the depths of my soul, this is about promoting the beautifully good God that I have come to know and His inexhaustible love for YOU!
We have a Creator who is enamored with us. His love and faithfulness are unchanging. No matter what you or I have done or ever will do, we have a Father who is obsessed with us. His creation - people are HIS magnificent obsession.
Once I began to understand God’s feelings toward us, how truly cherished and treasured we are to Him every single day, no matter what we do, I fell head over heels in love with Him, seriously! With this shift in my thinking and then in my heart, God spontaneously became MY magnificent obsession.
As I obsess about Him, my vision is changing. I am seeing others through His eyes and perspective. Where my heart was cold or apathetic, there is a growing compassion, an obsession with the people before me - whether friend, stranger, or foe.
My heart aches within me, for every person, to truly truly know His love as seen in and through the person of Jesus, and then to be so overwhelmed and astonished with that love that your mind explodes with wonder and worship and the same obsession that I have come to experience. This is the process of becoming love. This is the thing that will change the world. I'm sure of it!
This is why I write. His obsession with humanity has caused me to obsess about Him, which in turn has me obsessing about you. God sees you. He knows your name, and He fiercely adores you.
I appreciate you being here!