SURELY GOODNESS AND UNFAILING LOVE WILL PURSUE ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE, AND I WILL LIVE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER. (PSALMS 23:6 NLT)

I have decided to follow Jesus! It has been 26 years since I first realized God was pursuing me. I didn’t understand all that was going on inside of me then, it took some time. But what I did know is that I felt a different type of love that was drawing me closer to Him. What was so crazy is that He loved me even though I didn’t love Him back. Even though everything I had done up until then was out of selfishness. That He wanted to remove from my life all the pain and shame that I had gone through. He would wipe away everything in my past and I could start a new life in Christ Jesus. I thank God for loving me so much that He made a way for me to be forgiven of all the sin that had separated me from Him, through Jesus. This is my journey, my pursuit in getting to know the One who has redeemed me from a place of hopelessness. The One who set me free and who continues to work in my life that I may be made whole and complete through Him. I thank God that I am saved by grace and not because I am so great but because He is. I hold on to hope, knowing that this world and all its craziness is only temporary because a better life awaits ahead. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. (Ephesians 3:18 NLT)

Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40 NLT)