Jeremiah 31:3

I have loved you with an everlasting love;

    therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

I am loved with an everlasting love.

I am loved.

Even now, I pause and close

my eyes and embrace these words.

I hold them close to me as I take a deep

breath and let Your essence, Lord, fill me.

Essence of the Spirit, distilled and pure,

fills every cell of me, oxygenates my soul,

and gives me that strength I need

to wake and race the rest of the world

to that mountaintop where I can touch

the sky and tickle the toes of angels.

I am weightless when I am filled

with Your love, Lord.

I am weightless and I can fly.

I can soar above the eagles.

The heavens shower me with stardust

that clings to me like pollen.

Each particle sings to me the song

that gave birth to the universe,

and for a moment I know what

it means to live,

what it means to be Your child, Lord,

created with love and born from love.

You have loved me— 

You have loved us with an everlasting love,

a love that outshines the stars themselves.

Oh … how we are loved.

Amen.