Meriweather
Not all who wander are lost
- Oct 21, 2014
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Once I had an experience of God's love, and my immediate understanding wasn't, "This is how God loves me," my immediate understanding was, "This is how God loves all--including me." We aren't loved to the capacity we deserve to be loved--nor can we love others to the capacity to which they deserve. The other issue is that we do not have full understanding of one another--so magnify that to the nth degree and we gain the realization of how little we understand God.I've always wondered why God protected me when I didn't believe in Him? My family wasn't religious or church-goers. When my sister sneered at me and told me there was no Santa Claus I felt so betrayed I never believed much of anything anybody told me after that....seriously! One thing led to another and without divulging what changed that, suddenly it became apparent I'd be dead and gone but for Divine Intervention. An inch or two either way, a delay in getting onto a freeway, a missed phone call....any or all of which could have led to my death...but it didn't. I could no longer believe in "luck" and hate that word because there is no such thing as "luck"...it's all His hand on us.
God protected you because He loves you, and (I have reason to believe) protecting you in this manner is what was in your best interest, it what was what you required and who you are.
It is funny the reaction people have upon being told the truth about Santa Claus. I was amazed and delighted. As a child I could not imagine adults could not only still play a game of Let's Pretend--they could make it better than any childhood game of mine. I could hardly wait until I grew up and could play Santa. I also developed a different view of adults and adulthood.