I am wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, cousin, friend, confidant, neighbor and acquaintance.  I have been daughter, daughter-in-law, granddaughter and niece. I was student, teacher, subordinate, supervisor, winner, loser.  I was someone’s pride and joy, and someone’s challenge. I was playmate, teammate and first date.  I look back on my 80 plus years as a series of snapshots, each frame showing me in relationship with someone.

You too are and have been many things to many people. You have given and taken, won and lost, comforted and been comforted, loved and been loved.  Life is filled with relationships: some bring us joy, some are a challenge. Life is complicated!

But how about our relationship with our Almighty Heavenly Father?  He is a Father, full of love, forgiveness, patience, compassion and understanding – more completely and perfectly than any earthly father could possibly match, no matter how devoted.  He is always ready to wrap His loving arms around us.

Yet He keeps it so simple for us.  He calls us “My child.”  How awesome is that, the Almighty God wants us to be His child!  He asks us to look up to Him, to cling to Him, to trust Him. In a lifetime of changes, when friends and family come and go, there is one constant:  Who am I? I am a child of God.

You too are a precious child of God.  Remember He loves YOU unconditionally.

Judy

Originally posted in November 2017