Love like a child!

I have possibly the world’s most beautiful grand daughter!  Ashlynne is turning 3 in May.  Everytime I see her and spend time with her, she seems to have gotten cuter and sweeter.  Julie & I get to babysit her quite often.  She is a very active and busy little girl that rarely slows down for anything.  Not too long ago, we were at her house babysitting her.  We were playing actively as we always do.  Suddenly, out of the blue, she said “Mimi, I love you.”  Now, she had never said it to me before completely on her own with no prompting.  I was so startled that I said, “what did you say?”  She said, “I love you, Mimi” and this time she put her little hand on my cheek.  My heart melted into a little puddle on the floor and only another grand mother could understand what feelings I had at that moment.  It meant so much to me that she had offered her love, without prompting, completely of her own free will.

Some time later, as I was recalling that moment, God spoke to me and showed me that he feels the same way when we come to him and tell him we love him….no prompting, not looking for anything in return, just expressing our love to him of our own free will.  How often are we so busy running from one thing to the next, forgetting that he’s there all the time, waiting for us to come to him and just say “Daddy God, I love you”.  His love flows freely to us, unconditionally.  Once we can embrace that love and accept it for our own lives, it’s easier to express it to others.  We don’t have to be good enough, perform just right, or say all the right things.   He loves us just because we’re his creation.  We’re his child, and he melts when we say “I love you”.   Next time your child or grand child expresses their love to you, remember that Daddy God longs for you to do the same.

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