Just As I Am & Just As We Are

There are times in our lives when we feel like we are not loved, or we feel like we are not good enough to be loved because of all the mistakes we have made in our lives due to making bad choices, but that's a lie that is further from the truth. At one time in my life, I felt just like that. I felt like no one loved me, or cared for me. It depressed me so much. I was in that dark place for a very long time and I became comfortable being there. I felt like nothing mattered like I was just taking up unnecessary space.

One day I thought that I was never going to feel loved, wanted, or cared for. I was always talked down to when I was a child growing up. I thought I was going to grow up to be nothing. Being bullied didn't help either, it only made things worse. I went to church every Sunday thinking that things would get better, but I was wrong. I became an introvert. I stayed to myself and I didn't care about having friends. As the years came and went I became a teenager and had my first child when I was sixteen years old. Being a single parent was hard. I thought that things would change but they didn't. More years came and went, had my second child hoping for the best, but again I was wrong. I didn't know what to do, or what I was going to do to make things better for myself and my two children. Three years after that, I met my now-husband and fell in love. I had my first miscarriage, and two more after that. I was devastated. I didn't know what to think. I started thinking I was being punished for something that I had done when I was young, like talking back to my mom. I thought God didn't love me anymore. For a while after that, I didn't want to try anymore. I got pregnant with our first son our second son, and then our baby girl, she was the last one. One night God spoke to me literally and told me who I was to Him, and who He was to me. I knew right then that God loved me just as I am, and He loves us just as we are.

There is nothing we could ever do to stop God from loving us. Not our mistakes, sins, shortcomings, and everything in between. He loves us no matter what. His love endures forever.