Captivating

I'm reading a book entitle Captivating, and have totally fallen in love with what it is trying to speak to. It is a book directed towards the heart of women and it surely has touched me as I've been reading. The biggest thing that has impacted me in the 3o pages or so that I have read is that God is like women in that He is a relational being. As women, we are relational. We long to have relationships and we constantly are forming and nurturing them. God is the same way. God longs for us to have a relationship with Him. He longs to be loved, as do we as women. I think that the thing I struggle with the most in my relationship with God is understanding why, why would He want a relationship with me? I'm not anyone special, I'm just another status quo girl, and yet He longs for a relationship with me. That to me, is very hard to wrap my head around.

I recently came across a song, also quoted in the book, that I feel is how so many of us probably feel. It reminds me that God truly does see me as beautiful, He sees me as perfect, and while I can not see myself as such...He will continue to. It's called Beautiful by Bethany Dillon, check out the lyrics!