Psalm 27:10

God will find a way to love us.

God knows some of us will be abused by our parents. God knows Their (my preferred pronoun for God) own image will be muddied by such parents. The consequences of both will be addressed by God. The question is, will we pay attention?

“Though my father and mother forsake me, yet will the Lord receive me” (Psalm 27:10).

God is humble. God does not flail Their arms and insist on being credited with the things, small and large, we used to limp through abusive childhoods. Nevertheless, these things had the grace of God wound about them, and the grace of God took their effect and multiplied it!

The attention from a teacher. The smile from the stranger. The words from that book, that song. The rainbow on that particular day. The four-leaf clover. The idea that struck so clearly in our minds. Even the glimpse of understanding we experienced as we observed the wounds our parents carried. God took each of these and infused them with grace!

God welcomes us, even when we do not approach Them. God abides with us. God takes things, small and large, and gifts them with love, with wisdom, with power and places them like flowers about our feet.

Reflection

Make a list of the things that comforted, empowered, struck you as you struggled through each day of your childhood. How might God’s grace have been wound round each one?

Prayer

Dear God, You were there! Inspiring that teacher! Lifting my eyes to catch that rainbow. Drawing my attention to the clover. To hear “I love you” from You in these ways has profound impact. Open my eyes, Lord, to all the ways in which You received me. Amen.