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Never ending Love//Steph

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It’s been one of those weeks.
I don’t have it all together. 
Life is hard.
Anxiety seems to follow me around all day.

Yet I can find joy and rest in Christ.

I don’t know what kind of week you’re having or what you’re going through lately but I can tell you this – You are loved.
No matter what you are going through, you are loved by the One who doesn’t change. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His love is never ending, perfect, and beyond our comprehension. 

Here are some verses and a poem to meditate on today as we thank God for His love:

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. “ Romans 8:38-39.

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.” John 15:13

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 1 John 4:16


Love's as Warm as Tears//C. S. Lewis


Love's as warm as tears,
Love is tears:
Pressure within the brain,
Tension at the throat,
Deluge, weeks of rain,
Haystacks afloat,
Featureless seas between
Hedges, where once was green.


Love's as fierce as fire,
Love is fire:
All sorts - infernal heat
Clinkered with greed and pride,
Lyric desire, sharp-sweet,
Laughing, even when denied,
And that empyreal flame
Whence all loves came.


Love's as fresh as spring,
Love is spring:
Bird-song hung in the air,
Cool smells in a wood,
Whispering, "Dare! Dare!"
To sap, to blood,
Telling "Ease, safety, rest,
Are good; not best."


Love's as hard as nails,
Love is nails:
Blunt, thick, hammered through
The medial nerves of One
Who, having made us, knew
The thing He had done,
Seeing (with all that is)
Our cross, and His.

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