If I Believed

Man, I wonder what my life would look like if I really believed this?  How would my life be different if I was not scared, if I really believe that I am fully and totally loved by God?

                                                                                                                Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints, p.70

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what difference would it make?

what difference would it make

if I believed I was loved by the Sacred One

if I believed that one could see me

as I truly am

with all my fears and failures

with all my pretensions

and self-deceptions

with all my flaws

and love me?

what difference would it make

if I believed in Sacred Love so much

that I was secure within myself

and had no need

to hide

to impress

could I

as one who dares

to lean back into the embrace of the divine

be free

to be

me?

would I be truly free

to love

you?