Sunday, March 6, 2011

Just as I am

i thought i knew what love was. i have loved. i have been in love. i have given love with my whole heart. but i now know i never fully understood the love my parents had for me until i was blessed with a little family of my own. i have always known my parents love me unconditionally, they always have. but the extent of that love was so much bigger than i could have imagined.

my heart opened wider when i had our first child, i loved my husband more the day of her birth than i did on our wedding day. i didn't know that was possible....i thought i loved him more than life itself on my wedding day...and every day since. but becoming a parent has opened a whole chamber in my heart i didn't know existed.

i now truly understand "unconditional". i love my husband with nothing less than a pure unconditional love. i love my children with nothing less than a pure unconditional love. knowing this love, feeling this love, and giving this love is such a gift. now i understand Gods love so much more. it is AMAZING to know how much He loves us. i am HIS child, He loves me just as i am. i am so damaged. i am so unworthy of Him. but he loves me so much and only wants me to come to him JUST AS I AM!



Just as I am, without one plea,
but that thy blood was shed for me,
and that thou bidst me come to thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, and waiting not
to rid my soul of one dark blot,
to thee whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, though tossed about
with many a conflict, many a doubt,
fightings and fears within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind;
sight, riches, healing of the mind,
yea, all I need in thee to find,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, thou wilt receive,
wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve;
because thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, thy love unknown
hath broken every barrier down;
now, to be thine, yea thine alone,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

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