Hey, you. Yeah, I'm talking to you, the reader. Where are you? No, I don't mean your location. I mean where are you in life? Are you caught up in stress? In fear? In loneliness? Or in your own little world? OK, God wants you here. Right where you are. You don't have to be all together. Your life doesn't have to be perfect. He wants you here and now. He desires to walk through this tough thing we call life with you hand in hand. And, if need be, He'll even go as far as to carry you.

I'm the world's worst when it comes to thinking that I have make my life perfect and sinless before I turn my ugly heart back towards God. I've fallen away from His embrace so many times because I try to be perfect; and, if I'm not, I'm ashamed. So, I end up turning my back on God. Yes, I know that's wrong. I know I shouldn't. I'm trying to be vulnerable here. I'm trying to be honest. I'm not perfect. I know God loves me anyways, but little ole me in all of my human ways has a hard time seeing that. Little by little he shows me. He shows me He loves me. He shows me what I mean to Him. And, He shows me that with Him, I am better than my imperfection.

With God, I am a new creation. I'm not who I once was. Yes, I struggle to see that. I'm so guilty of not knowing my worth in Him, but this is me saying I will strive to see it. I will start looking at myself through His eyes. I want to see what He sees. I want to be what He wants me to be, and I want to be where He is. I know He is with me, and I have a tendency to push Him away. I don't want that anymore. I want to live in a world full of Jesus; and, for that to be possible my own little world has to be full of Jesus. I have to walk with Him hand in hand. Or when worse comes to worse, I have to let him carry me.

"Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know Him." Hosea 6:3