When I love someone I am eager to share with them all the things that are meaningful to me. I have heard the question posed: Who is the person you save things up to tell? That’s the one you love.
This year that One, first and foremost, has been God. I save up my pleasures, joys, gratitude and pains to share with Him. He listens, and speaks to me through the Holy Spirit. I have been learning to listen and what I hear, in so many ways, is “I love you, Jennie.”
How does He love me? God sent His son, Jesus, to die for me. In my sin, in this broken world, I needed a savior. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17
That is how He loves me. He was willing to die for me, so I could be drawn to Him, to be freely and abundantly loved by Him and to spend eternity with Him. And in the meantime, He walks with me in the park. He died for me, He walks with me, He loves me.
Yes I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you. Jeremiah 31:3
Meeting God at the Park 