When I was in residency, I had this dream: there was this baby girl who was about 4 or 5 months old. She was born with a severe cleft palate/lip and her birth parents did not want her, so I took her as my own. I loved this child with such a deep DEEP love that was unexplainable, a love that was so strong, intense, that I could not describe with words. I was holding her one day when a woman came up to me and told me that the baby was not mine. When she said this, something in me was soooooo deeply offended as if she had said the most offensive, ludicrous, thing I had ever heard in my entire life! Like her words were an abomination to my very existance! like how DARE you say this child is not mine. I looked at her with an expression of "how...dare...you!" and i told the woman that the deep love that i have for that baby girl tells me otherwise, that she in fact IS mine. She may not be perfect, but she is mine. And the lady walked away, and i embraced my daughter and clung onto her as tightly as i had before the woman approached me. The interesting thing was though my child had a clear imperfection (her cleft palate), it was as though the love covered all of that, and none of it mattered. That was the end of my dream. The following morning I shared it with Ms linda (my nurse at the time) because I thought the dream came out of nowhere and was unusual for me. Ms linda felt as though God was conveying His love for me through that dream. As though He wanted to show me an example of how deep his love for me is, by allowing me to experience the intensity of that love through the child in my dream. (Now that love was such an intense love!) Gods love is so deep, so intense, so deeply burning for us that anyone who tells you otherwise brings offense to Him. Its like hes saying, how dare anyone say that you are not mine. Though we may have our imperfections, his love covers every single one. And when He looks at you, he looks at you as his most beloved child. And no one can tell Him differently.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 05:25:38 +0000
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