Blanket of Love

 

I have a half hour commute to work.  I ride down the same highway every day.  I pull onto the highway and then the chase begins – who can drive faster than the next person, who can get the prime spot in just the exact lane they want to be in.  I am a victim to this and typically get that spot I want (many who know my driving skills do not find that unusual).  The other day was different.  Something caught my eye.  It was the beautiful wildflowers, mostly daisies, which had returned for the spring and summer season.  Not just a few that popped up, but blankets of wildflowers everywhere.  They were in full bloom, and they were gorgeous.  They bring such beauty to the concrete of the highway.  Since that day, it has been less on the perfect highway lane and more about reveling in the blanket of beauty. 

I have pondered much on the blanket of beauty.  I knew there was a blog post in that beauty and today it is about God’s blanket of love.  There are so many ways that God lavishes this blanket upon us.  There are times when we need the blanket to envelope us when the world is against us.  I remember when I was going through my divorce, as much support as I might have had, I felt as if I would never be loved again.  Many evenings I cried thinking that love would evade my life moving forward.  Yet, I also remember the feeling I had when I read of God’s love always being with me.  I pictured His blanket of love enveloping me, and I knew that whatever path He would take me, His love would always be enough.  God then blessed me with Juan’s love.

God’s blanket of love is not just for one person, though.  His blanket extends to each and every person on this earth.  Thousands of generations, as our verse for today points out, leads us to know that His love touches each and every person, and together that blanket of love is as beautiful as the blanket of daisies that greets me each day.  His love for us covers all of us in beauty.  It envelopes us in goodness.  It brings us peace.

There is much dividing us lately.  Even as recent as this weekend.  Yet, there is one thing that truly brings us all together, the love our Lord has for us and wants us to have for each other.  We will have differencing of opinions.  We will have our own statements of truth which may not be seen by the next person.  We have plenty to ‘write off’ the person standing next to us.  God does not want that for us.  Our job, our sole job, is to love each person – everyone – the way God loves us.  It is not easy.  I am sure I am not easy for God to love most days.  Still, I know His love is always there for me.  Let us be there for others.  Let us create a blanket of love!!

Heavenly Father, I thank you for the blanket of love that you graciously given me.  I feel that blanket often, especially when the world around me is cold.  Let us be your blanket of love here on Earth.  May we show love, grace, and mercy to all that we meet.  May our love be the blanket that someone needs.  In your loving name I pray.  Amen!