“God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life.” – Henri Nouwen

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Psalm 71:17

God, you have taught me from my youth; to this day I proclaim your wondrous deeds.

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As I look back to my youth, I can now see the tender love of God that was always with me.

This Love upheld me and embraced me through the unfolding events of my life like a nurturing, compassionate mother.

It carried me through the storms that presented themselves as a part of this earthly realm.

I distinctly remember lying on a hospital gurney as an adolescent awaiting to have a minor surgery.

For a time, I was alone looking up at the lights above me.

There was a moment when I sensed in my heart that I had nothing to fear and that this experience will help comfort me later in life when there will be a more serious matter.

That memory came back to me as a 38-year-old when I was in a different hospital being transported on a gurney to have an emergency appendectomy.

I again felt the comforting arms of a God who is like a loving mother cradling a babe in arms saying, “Do not fear. All shall be well.”

Several days later as I lay on my hospital bed very sick due to the paralysis of my digestive tract, this Love suddenly filled me with an intense experience of my oneness with God and all things.

The whole experience was life-changing.

It led me to pursue a Master’s degree in Religious and Pastoral Studies, to record four albums of music, and to publish two devotional books.

To this day, I proclaim God’s wondrous deeds in words and song!

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Remember: God loves you!