There...

"Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Geneis 28:15

He is there in the still moments of dawn, as that great fiery star slowly comes round to our side of the planet and spreads beams of light across fields of green.

He is there in the dead of night, when darkness surrounds and envelops...our breath coming in slow beats of time with the heartbeat of God...

He is there when all seems lost...when our world has seemingly fallen apart, figuratively and literally....there, always...ready to comfort, to bring peace to chaos...joy for grief...wiping tears from our eyes and giving surcease to that aching heart struggling to continue beating within our chests.

He is there...on that lonely, beautiful back country road...riding shotgun and watching over your journey...

He is there in the quiet stillness of lake country far, far removed from civilization...in the sound of fish jumping for their meals, in the cry of a falcon searching for his lunch, in the waddle of that fat sleepy bear moving into the brush away from the human invading his space....

There...and there...and there...residing in us, with us, beside us...loving, accepting, cherishing His beautiful creation...

You see my friends...He sees us as perfect...manifestation at its best, God the original trend setter....

Knowing our faults, our mistakes, our heartaches, our cries reaching His mighty ears, yet seeing only with eyes of love, of forgiveness, of mercies evermore...

We live and have our being because of Him, do we not? No matter who you choose to worship, or if you worship not at all...He believes in you...in your potential, in your ability to overcome all that this messy life throws your way.

Yesterday, today and forever...loved...

Fear is a tool of the enemy to distort, to control, to squash any free-thinking independence...

As we educate ourselves, self-reflect, away from the situation or even in it, we come to an awareness of the strategies and plans of the abuser, the tormenter; evil plans to harm, to isolate, to manipulate, to create, sustain and buoy chaos in place of the love and loyalty spoken of.

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7

May your days be filled with hope, the kind that brings calm, creates safe spaces for thought, for plans, for dreams and goals. The kind that takes fear and uses it, morphs it into determination, into perseverance for better, for more...the kind of more we are each worthy of.

May God bless your days and nights with peace that passess all understanding, in the midst of whatever hell you are currently living in and under.

May you find your way clear to acceptance, to loving kindnesses...to a place free of fear and pain, sorrow and grief, confusion and erasure of self at the hands of so-called loved ones.

God bless each moment with a love that engulfs and reaches each and every crevice, every tear in the fabric of your heart and soul...may you know intimately the love of a Father who will never leave nor forsake you. A unmitigated love of such breadth and width it would swallow up the known universe and those beyond.

You are loved.

Needed.

Cherished.

Cheered for.

Read that again....cheered for.

Loved in every way...always...forever...

Breathe that in my friends....let it fill all empty spaces and places...let it drive out fear and the grief that sits so heavily upon your fine shoulders.

Breathe...you are seen and KNOWN and more...you are LOVED exactly as you are.

Go today in that knowledge and watch the miracles come...feel your heart begin to beat again...know your worth once more, and act accordingly in that knowledge. Worthy, each one.