Imagine

By Anna Sklar
"I love you."
"You are such a good mother."
"I'm so happy to be married to you."
 
These are my husband’s words. He's been saying them to me over and over the almost 13 years we've been together. My heart used to block them, believing these words couldn't be true about me.

One day as my husband spoke affirming words to me, my heart began to turn away from the good being offered. In that moment, I heard Him ask: “Why do you turn away from My words? I have put them in Joshua's mouth so he will speak them to you . . . I cannot hold you with human arms or speak to you with a human voice, but I have given you someone who can. Hear his words, for they are My words. Open your ears to all My words. I've given them to many of my people to speak into your life. Believe them. . Anna, these words are true, that is how I see you. Live in that truth.”
 

So I try, when my Joshua affirms me, when others speak words of encouragement and love, I try to really hear them and live in them and thank God for the gift of them. Thank Him for the words from beyond. Imagine a place where you only hear those kinds of words, an everlasting whisper in our ears of goodness and love and beauty . . .  this is just a glimpse.