I have loved you with an everlasting love

My daughter is at the forefront of my thoughts today, as she usually is. Our children are never far from our thoughts. In my prayer time this morning I was given this passage and I rewrote for my beautiful daughter. My prayer is for her to  realize what a wonderful, beautiful, talented, gifted, tenacious, confident, tender and sweet young lady she is and that she has captured my heart forever. I feel my love so strong for her that it's hard to imagine that God can and does love her more.

Psalms 119:13-18

For you created my daughter's in most being, you knit my daughter together in my womb.
She praises you because she is fearfully and wonderfully made, your works are wonderful.
My daughter knows that full well.
Her frame was not hidden from you.
When she was made in that secret place. When she was woven together in the depths of the earth,
your eyes saw my daughter's unformed body. All the days ordained for my daughter were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious are your thoughts of her, oh God!
How vast are the sum of them! Were she to count them, they would outnumber the grains of said.
When she is awake, she is still with you.

I love you from the depths of heart my precious daughter. -Mom, Dad  and God

When life's a little fuzzy

Sometimes we only see a snapshot of our life. We see a polaroid here and a polaroid there. In those snapshots the background may seem a bit fuzzy. It can be hard to make out where it was taken, who that is standing behind you, or where that strange chair came from that your loved one is sitting in.  A snapshot captures a moment, a frame of our lives that we may not fully understand. We may squint our eyes and stare the photo down, trying to grasp the full picture. All the while, God says, "trust me, my child." "Trust in the Lord." Psalms 37:3. I hear Him say, "You have a snapshot but dear one I have the whole photo album and it's clear to me as a bright sunny day." God knows, God sees, and God holds each moment in his hands. He reassures us when he was speaking to Joshua through Moses in Deut  31:8, "The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you or nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do  not be discouraged." He wants us to trust him. I love Psalms 125:1. "Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion which cannot be shaken but endures forever." As I sit here today reaffirming my trust in the Lord, in the midst of something I never dreamed would be apart of my life, I recall the song sang by Natalie Grant "I will not be moved." That's right, I will not be moved nor shaken. In the Message it says in Col 1:23 I will "stay grounded and steady in the bond of trust." I'm thankful God is giving me the ability to trust him even though I only see the snapshot today. I'm holding on with all my might, grounded and firm.