I Am A Masterpiece

I had this amazing revelation the other day that brought a flood of tears to my eyes.

I had just finished reading the devotion and scriptures from one of my bible plans (YouVersion is the TRUTH). Lying in bed, I began to let my mind wander. I started off contemplating God's love for me, trying to get a handle on it. I know God loves me, but truly comprehending that love is another matter.

Then I started thinking about poetry.

If you didn't know by now, I love poetry. Reading it and making it. My poetry means so much to me. Every word I place, on every line I create, comes from deep down inside of me. It comes from my joy, my pain, my sadness, my hope. My poems are the literary interpretation of who I am as a living being. When I revisit them, they talk back to me in my own language. They uplift me and their existence affirms me. They do A LOT okay?

Well, what if poems were personified, or made human? Whole complex beings created from a small part of something/someone much larger. What if I'm like one of God's poems? Don't I reflect his image and likeness? Don't I hold within me a small piece of his greatness? When I praise him, don't I uplift and affirm him? What if God loves me like I love my poetry?

Cue the balling.

That's a love I can understand because I experience it every time I create. And for you it may be different. Perhaps you create music or sculptures. Perhaps you paint or take photographs. Maybe you make movies or write stories. That feeling you get when you look over your work, that pride, that joy; God feels the same way when he looks at you.

That's how he loves us; we are his work of art. He takes his time molding and shaping us and at every new stage we become even more fantastic, even more like him. When he looks at us he's proud of us and what he's accomplished.

I could use more revelations like that.