Today is the last day of the Write 31 Days challenge. It has definitely been a challenge for me this time. I was so excited about my topic back in August. However, by mid-September, I just wasn’t feeling it. To be completely honest, I didn’t want to write about living loved because I was having a really hard time living loved myself. This has been a difficult season of life for me and I just wasn’t feeling loved. Instead, I felt rejected. Abandoned. Forgotten.

I tried to justify not participating as I had planned, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that I needed to do it. When God tells you to do something it’s always easier to just obey. Even if it’s not what you want to do. Especially if it’s not what you want to do.

Here I am, 31 days later, so thankful that I took that leap of faith. In writing about how to live loved, I’ve discovered how to do it again for myself. I have regained my focus. I have been able to soak in God’s love for me and find some much-needed rest.

My meditation throughout this journey is found in Romans 8:38-39.

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

As this month draws to a close, I am content to live simply loved. I hope you are, too.