A letter

To my beautiful God,

This year has been the most difficult year of my life, but it has also been the most rewarding, fruitful, and honest. I learned more about your faithfulness, your goodness, and about the nature of your love i this short time than I think I have my whole life.

God, you are so good. So good. Thank you for your goodness. Thank you for your urgent faithfulness. You rescured Ben and I out of a web of lies and deceit. It was a battle won by your hand; a battle that could only have been won by your hand. Thank you for saving us. Thank you for breaking into our lives. You are so good. Thank you for that solid lesson in what it means to love people like Jesus does; to love like a savior. It's written that whatever God builds up, no one can tear down. I know this is true. Thank you for the things you've built in me. Thank you for the things you are building in me now. Thank you that I'm teachable. Please keep my heart soft and honest so that I'll always be teachable.

Thank you for calling to me in the dark. Thank you for being my strength when I just don't have any. Thank you for pulling me out of the destructive thoughts, and thank you for your gentle touch as you turn my chin towards your instead. Thank you for peeling the darkness from my eyes, revealing the wonder and the power of your truth to me. Thank you for catching my gaze.

You remind me of a warm summer morning in a hidden place of vast white sands and ocean song where the light is so bright that all color fades gently into soft glow. The warmth of the sea breeze is like your breath, and the ocean song is your voice. I want to know you like a lover. Thank you for coming dangerously close: please come closer, love. You're all that matters.

Love,

Brianna Danielle

A thankful heart prepares the way for Jesus mine.