What I am

I am a singer, I am a hairstylist, I am a wife, I am a mother, I am many things.  Seriously though, of everything I am, the most important thing, is LOVED.  I am loved.  I am adored by the very one who created me.  I  can't do anything to lose His love, because, I never did anything to gain His love.
Here is the thing though, I was raised in a "religious" enviroment.  Now  religion  is not a bad thing.  It is actually a truly AWFUL thing.  Religion will take you where love can not.  Religion told me if I loved God, I would live a holy life.  Love taught me, I could never be "holy" enough and I could never manage to be good enough on my own.. I am righteous through Jesus.  The blood Jesus shed, the blood that washes away  my sin, that blood is what God sees when He looks at me.  Quite simply, when God looks at me... He sees Jesus.
So I am learning, I can't love what I fear.  I am learning, to chose the love that I was given.  To be able to shout from the inner recesses of my heart...I AM LOVED !