This is a fairly short entry, but on a topic just as important as God’s love for you —

I’ve spent a good part of this week dealing with spiritual warfare. There are a few specific areas that Satan loves to use in order to get to me and drag me into the pit of despair.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2

This week has been a good lesson in how to catch warfare early, and drawing to God in order to combat it. It’s been pretty hard at times, as it often takes a few swings of the clue-by-four for me to “get” a lesson. But it will be worth it in the end. It always is.

I promise this space will also have photography, much more than it has now. But I think I’ll keep Thursdays for writing about God and God-stuff. Stick around and see.

God loves you so much, you have no freaking clue.

This is what I wanted to run around and tell people all day yesterday. And for some, I did. And I hope it was fruitful.

It all started as I was on my way to visit my horse to do some training work in the morning. On the drive out there, I was overcome with tears and gratitude and joy and a load of emotions about exactly how strong God’s love for us is. I always knew God loved me more than I could ever imagine, but I never had any sort of glimpse into it.

Until yesterday. Singing (shouting, really) from the top of my lungs with tears streaming down my face, before the most Holy God. And I sat there at His feet while waves of love and gratitude flowed over me.

God has always given me a tender heart for people who are broken and hurting, but yesterday that was kicked into overdrive. I was crying for friends who are hurting, I was crying for strangers I had not yet met who were hurting… and shown just how badly God loves us and wants us to be healed and free from the pain.

You have no idea.

We are made free in Christ. Our old self is done away with, and we are remade a beautiful new creation. Free from bondage. I only wish it was easier to heal from the pain. You can’t just wake up one day and be done with it. But God is immutable and steady, and he will continue to pursue you with the most loving heart.

From the depths of my heart, I am sorry for what pain you’ve experienced, and the effect it’s had on you. I sincerely am. I can’t do much about it, but I pray that God reaches in to that most broken of places and starts putting the pieces back together.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
— John 3:16-17