Dear Ones,
Hope you have a day with your heart wide open to His love.  Al will soon be off to Men’s group and I will be doing food prep and studying and writing. Later we have Bible study.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Do we sometimes doubt that we are loved for who we are? Maybe we feel we don’t measure up and are a disappointment to our family. How sad that is! Over Christmas time, I was able to see Taylor who many of you have prayed for in the past and her husband Ethan and their new three-month-old baby Eden. If ever a baby was loved! Eden is showered with so much love by her parents and grandparents, etc. She is not loved for what she does, for she only smiles and coos, and in fact needs attention from others to be held, rocked, fed, changed, etc. and not always at convenient times.
It hit me, that we are much like little Eden, for we can’t do much for the Lord. He cares for the whole universe and we are each only one little peon, and yet He cares for us enough to give His life for us. We are not eloquent of speech, we often want our own way, we often think more of our needs than others. But our Father loves us, even when we make messes and He cleans them up. He carries us when we are weak. He holds us tight, rocks us when we are anxious, and He feeds the hunger of our souls. There is no way we can care for ourselves and we need Him more than we will ever know. May we recognize His voice in our ears as He comforts and strengthens us. Let us receive His love, fully depend on Him and receive all the ways He cares and loves us.
I think of the chorus I learned in Sunday School as a little girl and did the motions as well:
“Wide, wide as the ocean, high as the heavens above;
Deep, deep as the deepest sea is my Saviour’s love.
I, though so unworthy, still am a child of His care;
For His Word teaches me that His love reaches me everywhere.”
May each of us open our hearts to let the Lord love us just as we are, care for us, lead us, guide us and speak His words that lets us know we are not a disappointment but we are cherished.
Challenge for today: Thank your Father in heaven several times today for how much you are loved by Him, and live in the truth of those words.