Day 17 - When God Looks at You

366 Days of Compassion and God's Promises in the Bible

When God looks at you, shall He not see His beloved child?

“The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,

and saves those who have a crushed spirit.”

-Psalm 34, WEBBE

Think not that when I look at you, I look only at your faults. That all I see are the rough edges and the shadows surrounding you. Think not that as I gaze upon you, I have come only to measure you, to find only what is lacking in you.

No, this is not how I look at you. For though I see all this darkness, all this brokenness and pain, all these things could never turn me away.

On the other hand, I have come to share your sufferings, to taste your tears, even to dwell upon your wounds. And there, where all is bitterness, I live, and I love.

I take your every weakness upon me, I claim all of them as mine. For you are mine. You are my beloved. And if you are willing, you can rest your broken heart upon Mine.

And I shall look at you as I look upon my own wounded heart. Pierced and crushed, yet overflowing with compassion. Knowing both sorrow and joy. Beating as one with love!

I LOVE YOU MY CHILD

I love you, my child
nothing can separate me away from you.

You are here always,
within my strong and loving embrace.

You are protected
You are loved.

I delight in you,
and see my own eyes upon your eyes.

I take away your fears,
I take away your tears,
from now on you are safe
and you are where you’ve always longed to be.

Let the people who judged you
see how I cherish you now,
Let those who condemn you
see how close you are to me.

You are never outside of my love,
never an outcast
never a failure
never so far away.

You are beautiful
you are whole
you are healed
you are my beloved
you can rest upon my strong shoulders,
and trust that you won’t ever slip away,
For it is I
who is holding on firmly to you.

God’s Promise for Today

“Like a father has compassion on his children,

so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.”

- Psalm 103:13, WEBBE

Saint Quote

“It is better to be a child of God than king of the whole world.”

– St. Aloysius Gonzaga

Mother Mary

“Happy, indeed sublimely happy, is the person to whom the Holy Spirit reveals the secret of Mary, thus imparting to him true knowledge of her. Happy the person to whom the Holy Spirit opens this enclosed garden for him to enter, and to whom the Holy Spirit gives access to this sealed fountain where he can draw water and drink deep draughts of the living waters of grace. That person will find only grace and no creature in the most lovable Virgin Mary. But he will find that the infinitely holy and exalted God is at the same time infinitely solicitous for him and understands his weaknesses. Since God is everywhere, he can be found everywhere, even in hell. But there is no place where God can be more present to his creature and more sympathetic to human weakness than in Mary. It was indeed for this very purpose that he came down from heaven. Everywhere else he is the Bread of the strong and the Bread of angels, but living in Mary he is the Bread of children.”
-The Secret of Mary, Saint Louis Marie de Montfort

Song for the Day

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