He knows the pain you try to hide. He has heard the whispered words that slapped you in the face, seen the betrayal of friends, and the little foxes that gnaw at your soul. He knows the dark secrets, the overcoming loneliness, the pain of nights spent crying into your pillow until you shake the bed, hoping no one can hear. And He is there; He is crying too. The sins committed against you were committed against Him, too. He shares your rejection and knows every tear intimately. The rain outside the window on so many nights is the grief of heaven coming down for you; the thunder declares His anger. Yet in all this His purpose stands, His love will win the battle. You are a masterpiece in the hands of a great Painter. The shades of black and grey, the shadows and dark places, must be painted so that the end result will have depth and meaning.
He knows, too, the gifts and talents inside you. He knows the joy of your personality and the greatness of your dreams. Oh child, God is the ultimate dream-spinner. The rainbow threads you surrender to Him will be woven into a tapestry you could not have imagined. But they must be given up; they must be laid down at His feet to do with as He pleases.
He is your beauty-maker, your tear-bearer, your dream-weaver. He is the mother heart that will never forsake you. He is the hearth fire to keep you warm, though storms rage outside. He will take you by the hand and teach you how to dance, when the music is sad and when it is joyful.
Someday He may walk with you down an aisle and give you into the hand of a chosen man. Someday He may witness with you things you always wished to see. Surely He will suffer with you; surely He will laugh with you. Some nights He will sing you to sleep, and some nights you will dance.
In you He is creating a lady, and in you He is creating a light. And one day He will claim you as His bride, and you will step over a new horizon and into a brand new world...
"Sing, O daugher of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in his love, He will joy over thee with singing."
(Zephaniah 3:14,17)
Written by Rachel Starr Thompson
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Rachel Starr Thomson is a homeschool graduate who lives in southern Ontario with her family of fourteen. She is the author of Heart to Heart: Meeting With God in the Lord's Prayer, Letters to a Samuel Generation, and the fantasy novel Worlds Unseen, available free from her Web site. Visit her online at littledozen.com and
http://www.littledozen.com/samgen.html. You will LOVE getting to know her!
**This is taken from a Girls' and Women's Christian Newsletter I receive.....I hope it will lift and encourage your spirit!
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