06/22/2025
The Lord knit your soul into existence! You are wonderful, beautiful, complex, beloved, and gifted wonderful attributes, skills, dreams, goals, and gifts! Before time began, God knew you, loved you, and ordained the days of your life, and the wonderful things that He wants you to do.
How often do we miss this same truth about ourselves in the midst of life’s competing demands. Our minds are constantly focused on our many shortcomings and flaws:
Why can’t I lose 10 pounds?
Why am I so tired/disorganized/grumpy?
Why can’t I be a better wife and mom?
Why am I never good enough?
Why can’t I do better?
We try so hard for so long to prove that we are good enough, to prove we are worth loving. We try to be needless and want-less, believing our needs and wants weren’t as important as others. But all the trying and working and proving never changed our heart.
Brave love starts with me, and it starts with you. Brave love means being honest about what we need and want. It’s allowing ourselves to be whole people with thoughts and feelings and moods. Brave love is messy and complicated, but it also brings peace and creates space for intimacy in our relationships.
We have all been fearfully and wonderfully made, known and loved by God to love bravely.