that people have said or done — they don’t have to define us for the rest of our lives. we can believe in and write a different story.
this love that i believe in exists in a god who holds nothing back from us, not even his son.
he gave him to us and he was beaten, tortured and left naked nailed to a cross, just so there would be a chance for us to know him, to experience him, to always have access to him.
there was no guarantee after suffering on that cross that we would want him, that we would choose him.
but his love for us is so great that 