Always The Same Words - "Child, I Love You"
A long time ago I wrote a song called 'Come
to the Father' that I used to sing to myself walking around the fields
with my dog. The last verse went like this, “Come to the Father, Come
hear His gentle voice. No condemnation, only mercy and grace. Sometimes
He whispers, sometimes He thunders aloud; always the same words, Child I
love you, Child I love you'.
According to his son Leif, Eugene Peterson had only one message that
pervaded everything that he said and wrote. And he used to speak that
message over his son every night in these words - "God loves you. God is
on your side. He is coming after you. He is relentless." How changed we
are in the moment that we hear and really understand those words that
GOD LOVES US! It is a mind-blowing, life changing truth that reaches
into our inner most being and acts like a balm over everything that is
going on in there. With those words come peace. Acceptance. Healing.
Wholeness. Forgiveness. Hope. Expectation. And the ability to look up
from the place where we stand and forward into the future. Words of
prayer and praise start coming from our lips as we learn again to trust
and hope in God our Father. Maybe slowly at first but gaining momentum
as our hearts begin to soften and soar. I hope and pray that today you
hear again those words from your heavenly Father - Child I Love You - and
that they change you forever.
Love, from Marianne xx