I was given this by my friends in Sigma Phi Lambda during college and have clung to it ever since.
It has brought great meaning for me several times in my life, including the birth of Hannah, and now the birth and death of Eva. I will always cherish these words, the message, and the scripture that accompanies these words.
Lord, I want to hold Your hand. I want to listen to Your voice. Please cradle me in Your arms, reshape me, mold me, conform me to Your image. Thank You for loving me.
"Because I Love Her...."
I made her…she is different.
She’s unique.
With love I formed her in her mother’s womb.
I fashioned her with great joy.
I remember, with great pleasure, the day I created her.
I love her smile.
I love her ways.
I love to hear her laugh.
And the silly things she says and does.
She brings me great pleasure.
This is how I made her.
I made her pretty and not beautiful,
Because I knew her heart,
And I know that she would be vain…
I wanted her to search her heart,
And to learn that it would be Me in her,
That I would draw friends to her.
I made her in such a way that she would need Me.
I made her a little more lonesome than she would like to be…
Only because of the need for her to learn and depend on Me…
I know her heart,
I know that if I had not made her like this
She would go her own chosen way
And forget me…her Creator.
I have given her many good and happy things…
Because I love her.
Because I love her I have seen her broken heart…
And the tears she cried alone.
I have cried with her,
And had a broken heart, too.
Many times she has stumbled and fallen alone,
Only because she would not hold My hand.
So many lessons she has learned the hard way
Because she would not listen to My voice.
So many times I have watched her go her merry way,
Only to watch her return to My arms,
Sad and broken.
And now she is mine again…
I made her,
And then I bought her…
Because I love her.
I have to reshape and mold her.
To renew her to what I had planned for her to be.
It has not been easy for her or for Me.
I want her to be conformed to My image.
This high goal I have set for her,
Because I love her.
