feeling loved.

Why does Heavenly Father love us?

from Dieter F. Uchtdorf..

Think of the purest, most all-consuming love you can imagine. Now multiply that love by an infinite amount—that is the measure of God’s love for you. ⁷

God does not look on the outward appearance. ⁸ I believe that He doesn’t care one bit if we live in a castle or a cottage, if we are handsome or homely, if we are famous or forgotten. Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God’s love encompasses us completely.

He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our résumé but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.

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so i had this really interesting experience on sunday. i remembered a few years ago i did this activity where i was blind for a few hours. that activity was SO amazing! really. it still really impresses me when i think about it.

i remember at the time i was sitting in a meeting at school in a large auditorium and had just crawled over several people to get to an empty seat.. remember i'm blind and can't see anything doing this. i sat down and started talking with the two people sitting on both sides of me, and i realized how interesting it was to get to know them without being able to see their face and ultimately make judgments.. e.g., how old they were, what they were wearing, whether they were married or single, etc.

instead, i just listened to them. and not only with my ears but i really felt like not being able to "know them" by seeing allowed me to know them by listening to and feeling their heart.

so for whatever reason i ended up doing a similar thing this past sunday. i was with a new group of people that i didn't know, but instead of judging them by all those things we tend to even define ourselves by, i just made things simple. i stopped doing all those things and i listened. i felt so much love for them. and it was a kind of love more than i am physically capable of feeling/having myself for any person. and i realized more the truth and reality of god's love for all of us. woooo weeeeeeee~~~ :)