As I write this letter, I find myself sitting on the floor accompanied by a pile of emotions. If this had happened to me a few years back, I would stand up, box up all my feelings and wrap it tight. For most of my life, I thought that feeling too many things meant there was something wrong with me. I worried about how I would appear to my friends- What would they think of me?
Read MoreFor many years, I struggled with the notion that I wasn’t very good at anything. I had a friend who was a star swimmer, friends who were in all honors classes, a friend who was the lead in the school play, and friends who just seemed to have it all together. And then there was me.
Read MoreOur Lord took this hardened heart of mine, this heart that had kept people and Him at a safe arm’s length away, and softened and molded it into a new creation. Day by day, the Lord helped me recognize and receive love. At first in the smallest of things: a friend doing my dishes after a dinner party I hosted, a coworker buying lunch for me, a stranger leaving an encouraging note on my desk.
Read MoreBeing honest and vulnerable with God showed me that His love is always greater than our failures.
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