Growing up I really struggled with my self-image. I always felt like I wasn’t quite good enough, like I didn’t measure up. If I had just done more, or something different, or been better – then I would be good enough. It was as if someone was always in my head saying, “You did good, but if you had done this, then it would have been perfect.” Being a perfectionist didn’t help. I could always find fault in everything I did, and unfortunately, I transferred this distorted view to how I thought God saw me. I figured He too thought that I came up a little short. Then something happened that forever changed me.
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At this point my husband realized that I needed to hear this first hand and woke me. You see, I love flowers and purple is my favorite color. There is no way this lady could have known that. I don’t even think my own dad knew what my favorite color was at the time, but you see, God did. He loves me so much that He knows all about me and what would speak to me. He knows the big things, and the small things. He sent me soup and flowers, purple flowers, when I was so very sick, and He did it through a woman who didn’t even know me. You see, she had met me at a small group from my church a couple of times and to know who I was had to look me up in the church directory – she didn’t even know my name, much less that I loved flowers or that my favorite color was purple. But God did. God cares about all the things that are special to us and knows those details of our life – He is a personal God – an intimate God who knows and cares about us.