The Truth of Nothing

A couple of things fell off the wall when he slammed the door. It doesn't happen often but when Kid One does blow up, it's major. In the heat of "battle" he said things to me that were mean. And it hurt. But I knew he didn't mean it because I know his heart. I left him in solitude in his room until I came home from a meeting a couple of hours later.

On the way to and from that meeting I cried, prayed for him, for me as a mom, for his heart, his mind and a million other things. He was acting from a place of woundedness.

I opened the door to his room when I returned. Tears filled his "quickly-turning-into-a-young-man" eyes.
Mom, can I talk to you?
I am so. so. so. sorry for what I did.
And he was visibly repentant.

I put down my coat and purse and took my place on the end of his bed.
Son, there is nothing you can do to make me stop loving you. Nothing you can say. Nothing you can think. Nothing you can throw. Nothing you can slam. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
My unconditional love for him healed his heart. I think he slept better than he had in days.

Our heavenly father is the same with his own children. There is nothing we can do to make him stop loving us. Nothing. We can't act bad enough, miss enough church, participate in enough habitual sin, have weak enough faith, yell enough at our loved ones, or even walk far enough away from the will of God. He loves us. No getting around that.

There is nothing we can do to stop His love for us. Understanding this truth leads to a repentant heart and motivates us to run after him whole-heartedly.

Someone may need to embrace this truth today.
Let your heart be healed by His unconditional love for you.
You.