Unconditional Love by Guest Blogger, Nelle

My Reflection

Standing in the mirror getting ready for the day I feel as if I am applying my façade. I look up and tell myself how old, how inadequate, how ugly a reflection I see. Not just on the outside but on the inside too.

Then I ask, “How God? How can you as almighty as you are love me? How can you continue to have confidence in me?”

Then suddenly my daughter comes beaming around the corner and says, “Mom, may I borrow your eye liner?”

As I watch her applying liner by my side I am filled with awe. Although I have just moments before scolded her for running late and not planning ahead, she doesn’t back away but joins me in our preparation for the day.

She is beautiful! She is a part of me. She is a part of my husband. She is a part of God!

Then I am reminded. That’s how He does it. That’s how He loves me. As a mother loves her child, unconditionally.

Loving you with the love of Christ,
Nelle
September 29,2009