Where is God?

EVERYWHERE.

And if God is love, that means that love is everywhere. Reading through Emeline's entry on love, that's such a comfort to know. We often focus too much on what's going wrong in our lives that we lose sight of what's going right. We are LOVED! Every day, every minute...not a millisecond goes by that we are not loved. Whether we feel it or not, that love is there...otherwise we would be saying that God is absent...which is never true...unless we ourselves push Him away...then we would be rejecting love.

Dear little heart,

Sometimes you feel like you're going to burst because you have so much love you want to give. Other times in your past, you wanted to keep the doors shut and not allow the love to flow because you were afraid that it would break you. But you are being held together by the hands of God, so there is never a reason to fear.

Have you noticed that you no longer feel the same pain you have carried from your childhood? Gone is the heartache that caused you to close yourself to the world. If you are to live as you were created then you must continue on with a renewed purity...as a child so innocently trusts. Years have graced you with understanding and experience has taught you wisdom...but don't ever lose that openness to love.

Temptations to despair will haunt you and questions about your self-worth will pierce you, but always come back to the Lord who made you and let Him tell you again and again who you are to Him.

There is much in you that is beautiful because you are the mystical tabernacle of God.

"Those who fear the Lord keep their hearts ready and humble themselves in His presence saying, 'Let us fall into the hands of the Lord and not into the hands of men, for great as His power is His mercy.' " (Sir 2:17-18)