When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory

["How He Loves Us"/ Kim Walker]

"Live Within Love"

I am not the victim the Enemy made me believe that I was. I am not reduced. I am not ugly. I do not contribute to my own sorrow.

The Enemy made me believe that I amounted to the worth of the trials and negativity that I encountered.

You gave me the gift of presence. I can effect the positivity that You created me to effect.

Unfortunately, I hid it. I polluted it. In which the Enemy and his forces that work in others delighted. This led me to ignore You. This led me to believe the pollution, even several times in the face of You, Lord.

But God, you work. You are the most persistent. Your love is the everlasting. Yours is the love that is meant to reign in our hearts.

God, You sent and maintained a select few. A few that refused to acknowledge the Enemy's pollution. A few that did not delight in the self-reinforced contamination that I tried to put forth.

And when You knew it was right, when You knew I had no recourse but to listen with an open heart; You showed me the pollution I allowed to be placed upon and mask my heart. Mask my good.

I knew that was not of me. I am of You. I am of love. I took that contamination and decided to let it go in favor of Your love.

I have invited You in. I have welcomed You into my heart. You have risen to my request to heal the damaged corners and weakened columns that you worked to uphold all along.

There You have made a home. In that home You grow Your love. You, strengthened by myself. You, strengthened by my faith. You, unscathed and pure, Lord.

And I realize, now, that if those few, Your few, could see You within me, when I chose to ignore, what is possible now that I believe? What is possible now that I live, grow, nurture, and cherish You, as You always did me?

You are possible.

I worship You. I live You. I love You, Lord.

Thank You.

Love, Your daughter,

Carolina


Post Scriptum:
Be mindful, my friends, that you are only as unhappy as you believe yourself to be. But your good is limitless, because your good is of God.