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To the Moon and Back

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“I love you to the moon and back”[i] is a tender expression, but consider this:

I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. Jeremiah 31:3

His love for you reaches infinitely farther than 478,000 miles (to the moon and back). The origin of His love is untraceable, unknowable and exceeds the limitless distance of space and time. It has no origin, no beginning and no end. It is an everlasting love from before time and forever.

Day after day, He whispers, “I love you.” He keeps saying and saying it. He never grows tired of saying it and delights in doing so. He has always loved you and will always love you, no matter what.

The fire of His love never flickers or dims and can never be extinguished, even when we fail, even when we don’t love Him back. He relentlessly draws us to Himself with unfailing, unflinching, undeserving kindness.

[i] Hepworth, Amelia. (2015). I Love You to the Moon and Back. Tiger Tales.

Afire

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Oh Lord, who have I but You? You are the beat of my heart and the fire in my soul. Blaze up within me! Set my heart ablaze with love for you and love for my brothers and sisters. Let not these words be but flourishes of prose, but let them be the honest and naked passion of my soul.
Oh Lord and Master, you are my life and my very breath. When the fire on the altar of my heart grows small, bring seraphs to my heart and touch me with a blazing coal from the altar of heaven. Purify me and set me, once more, ablaze with love.
Oh Lord Jesus, help me to say…if all else falls away, if I were completely alone…You are enough. My fingers hesitate and hover over the keys afraid and tentative. So, I whisper with weak faith…You are enough. Deepen my faith and devotion.
Oh Father, give me an undivided heart wholly devoted to You. You are the aching throb of my soul. Fill me with your goodness and your love. I am Yours. Do with me as you will.