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What It Means To Me To Be Loved Unconditionally

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Tori Capps
Jan 02, 2017
Belmont University
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What It Means To Me To Be Loved Unconditionally

What It Means to Me to be Loved Unconditionally,

Sometimes you find yourself in this cycle of “if I could just have that one thing I would be “perfect”

Let’s be dead honest for a moment. I have always struggled with the concept of the fact that I can’t be my version of “perfect.” This imaginary standard that I set for myself that I felt the need to live up to. I would get the worse anxiety when I would sit and think about how I would never be able to meet this standard. It was ridiculous. I have amazing parents who love me regardless of when falter in life and I have friends who will continually show me their unending support in life’s struggles. So, what made me believe that I had to be perfect? Even more so what made me believe that I was not worthy of the love I was being given?

“Blessed are you who weep now for you shall laugh” Luke 6:21b

For me this verse has always been a constant reminder that there will be ugly before there ever is pretty. There are going to be hard times sometimes before there are ever good. I can’t expect everything to always just be this crystal clear image of what I want. As my parent’s always say “life isn’t always fair,” which as they normally are they are right in that case. Life isn’t fair and yes it isn’t great all the time, but I am know one thing for sure I am loved unconditionally by a God who knows me by name.

He calls me loved, cherished, redeemed, forgiven, friend, justified, blessed, new, and accepted.

I know that I will always be loved even in the times of my screw-ups. Which for me takes this weight off my shoulders and makes me breathe a little easier. People use to ask me why I believed in something I couldn’t see and my answer for them was always that, “I counting on the fact that there is someone out there who loves me unconditionally and made me in his image even when I wasn’t deserving of the love and that for me is enough.”

With being loved unconditionally by God who is much greater than me I am able to believe and live as a person who is free and for that I will always be thankful.

Please remember you are loved.

More than you will ever know.

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