Because I Love Her

I made her...she is different. She is unique.

With love I formed her in her mother's womb.

I fashioned her with great joy.

I remember, with great pleasure, the day I created her.

(Psalms 139:13-16)

I love her smile. I love her ways.

I love to hear her laugh at the silly things she says and does.

She brings me great pleasure.

This is how I made her.

I made her pretty but not beautiful, because I knew her heart.

I knew she would be vain...I wanted her to search out her heart.

And to learn that it would be Me in her that would make her beautiful.

And it would be Me in her that would draw friends to her.

(1 Peter 3:35)

I made her in such a way that she would need Me.

I made her a little more lonesome than she would like to be.

It was only because I need for her to lean and depend on Me.

I know her heart...I know if I had not made her
like this she would go her own chosen way.

And forget me...her Creator.

I have given her many good and happy things.

BECAUSE I LOVE HER.

(Psalms 84:11)

Because I love her, I have seen her broken heart.

And the tears she cried, alone.

I have cried with her, and had a broken heart too.

Many times she has stumbled and fallen alone
only because she would not hold my hand.

So many lessons she's learned the hard way.

Because she would not listen to my voice.

(Isaiah 53:6)

So many times I have sat back and sadly
watched her go her merry way alone.

Only to watch her return to My arms, sad and broken.

(Isaiah 62:2)

And know she is mine again.

I made her and then I bought her.

Because I love her, I have to reshape and mold her.

It has not been easy for her or for me.

(Jeremiah 29:11)

I want her to be conformed to MY image.

This high goal I have set for her.

BECAUSE I LOVE HER.

-By Kathleen Redmond