I know this holiday can be hard if you are single. I read the following letter one year when I was having a difficult time. I actually think its a good letter to read anytime of the year, for anyone! Then of course pics of our latest baking adventure are below.... Hope you have a good one!
My Child,
You may not know me, but I know everything about you ~ Psalm 139:1. I know when you sit down and when you rise up ~ Psalm 139:2. I am familiar with all your ways ~ Psalm 139:3. Even the very hairs on your head are numbered ~ Matt 10:29-31. For you were made in my image ~ Gen 1:27. In me you live and move and have your being ~ Acts 17:28. For you are my offspring ~ Acts 17:28. I knew you even before you were conceived ~ Jer 1:4-5. I chose you when I planned creation ~ Eph 1:11-12. You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book ~ Psalm 139:15-16. I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live ~ Acts 17:26. You are fearfully and wonderfully made ~ Psalm 139:14. I knit you together in your mother's womb ~ Psalm 139:13. And brought you forth on the day you were born ~ Psalm 71:6. I have been misrepresented by those who don't know me ~ John 8:41-44. I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love ~ 1 John 4:16. And it is my desire to lavish my love on you ~ 1 John 3:1. Simply because you are my child and I am your father ~ 1 John 3:1. I offer you more than your earthly father ever could ~ Matt 7:11. For I am the perfect father ~ Matt 5:48. Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand ~ James 1:17. For I am your provider and I meet all your needs ~ Matt 6:31-33. My plan for your future has always been filled with hope ~ Jer 29:11. Because I love you with an everlasting love ~ Jere 31:3. My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore ~ Psalm 139:17-18. And I rejoice over you with singing ~ Zeph 3:17. I will never stop doing good to you ~ Jer 32:40. For you are my treasured possession ~ Ex 19:5. I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul ~ Jer 32:41. And I want to show you great and marvelous things ~ Jer 33:3. If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me ~ Deut4:29. Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart ~ Psalm 37:4. For it is I who gave you those desires ~ Phil2:13. I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine ~ Eph 3:20. For I am your greatest encourager ~ 2 Thess 2:16-17. I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles ~ 2 Cor 1:3-4. When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you ~ Psalm 34:18. As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart ~ Isa 40:11. One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes ~ Rev21:3-4. And I'll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth ~ Rev 21:3-4. I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus ~ John 17:23. For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed ~ John 17:26. He is the exact representation of my being ~ Heb1:3. He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you ~ Rom8:31. And to tell you that I am not counting your sins ~ 2 Cor5:18-19. Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled ~ 2 Cor 5:18-19. His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you ~ 1 John 4:10. I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love ~ Rom 8:31-32. If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me ~ 1 John 2:23. And nothing will ever separate you from my love again ~ Rom 8:38-39. Come home and I'll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen ~ Luke 15:7. I have always been Father, and will always be Father ~ Eph3:14-15. My question is ~ Will you be my child? ~ John 1:12-13. I am waiting for you ~ Luke 15:11-32
Love, Your Dad, Almighty God
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| Bella got to decorate alone with me! |
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