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 I wanted him to love me. But at six my ideas of love were undoubtedly immature. Growing up it’s easy to think about love in simplistic terms. We can equate someone’s affection towards us as a symbol of a deep-seated emotional connection. But sometimes love doesn’t look like what we have come to expect. It’s not always a warm and fuzzy feeling. It takes work. In fact, there’s not one relationship in my life that I can think of that hasn’t required effort. Perhaps unsurprisingly, my most important relationship took more sacrifice than any other. Not on my part.

A line from one of my favorite hymns, “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” has been running through my mind lately: “Morning by morning new mercies I see/All I have needed Thy hand hath provided. . .” I affirm to myself that God provides all that I need, with new mercies every morning.