Flowers

All my life I've been running to get somewhere
not realizing I had already been bought

the price has been paid

and he has said it is finished

My identity is safe with you

now out in open and spacious place

I am free to live

                            dance

                                love

                                    run

I want you to have fun, He said.

I want you to eat.

I want you to live

                                enjoy life

I like it when you dance

I like it when you laugh, smile

Run, my child

Go forth.

Leave your worries behind.

I've got so many great things planned for you.

You don't need to achieve.

I am already at the top of the mountain

You don't need to climb it, I've already put you here.

Come up higher, you are already seated in the heavenly realms.

There is no need to strive, you are already here with me.

Soar with me, fly with me.

Let go, come into the deeper waters, and be held.

Just be held. I'll let you know when it's time to move.

The hole in your heart,

    You don't need to fill it with doing.

I'm big enough for it. I'm enough for you.

Now live out of the abundance. 

It won't be all dark and gloom;

    There will be joy too.

Your identity isn't in overcoming,

You are my child, my beloved.

Come up higher. I wanted to show you this.

Flowers of the field,

    this is where you belong.

This is an open and spacious place,

    not where you need to worry

if you fall, get up again

it's as quick as turning around

I'm pursuing you more than you are pursuing me.

You will never know the full extent of my love;

    it's more than you could ever know or imagine.

Spend eternity getting to know me, and there will be more.

No more feeling guilty because you think you don't deserve it.

I consider you worthy of the blood of my precious Son, Jesus Christ.

Who is it that condemns? It is I who justify.

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Be free, my child.

Live.

Let me throw you high into space.

Rejoice! For your fate has been secured.

Look around, there are a million things to see.

Go explore, have fun

    and if you don't finish, 

        you'll have all eternity

And I'll be with you.

Let's do this together.

Come, my child.

Be loved.