Learning to Love.

..And once again I find myself pervading through Gods perfect pool of peace.

God has blessed us with a beautiful day here in Ålesund. This morning for the first time while I was making my breakfast I decided that I would go outside and eat breakfast on the balcony. Why I haven't done this before? I have no idea. The thought escaped me for some silly reason. I suppose being here. Getting into a routine. You forget to think of things like taking the time to eat breakfast with your heavenly creator, outside, admist his creation. I suppose eating inside here I am among his creation too, all the beautiful people here.

I think this is my favourite morning that I have had here in Norway. It never fails & I am continuing to see more and more how special it is to invite God to join me in all that I do.

I sat there with the sun streaming onto my face with God's mighty creation in front of me. The mountains. & I thought to myself "You know, Danielle. The same God that created this beautiful creation. These mountains. Has also created you."

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For some reason lately I have been having a hard time. I think God has been trying to surface things inside of me. But I have done a swell job at letting the soil on top keep the below stuff firmly compressed . I didn't really realize that I had been doing it though. & I will say in these particular times I just need someone around me to give me a little shove. To look from the outside of the window, in.

The Lords love is abounding. It is intimate. It is passionate. & I am learning to love Him in the best way that I can & in turn love myself like that. I think it is a beautiful and important thing to love yourself. God created you. He created me. & if I love myself, how much more easier it will be to truely, passionatly, love others.

It's all about spreading the love!

Last night I was journaling & writing to God & I will just put a little excerpt of my conversation with God:

Me: Why do you love me, God?

(I laid down for awhile & let Him answer.)

God: Because you're my art piece. My art love. When YOU paint you paint with passion. Likewise, I have painted you in and with passion. An art piece is made to be given. Likewise, I have given you my son. I have created you to give of yourself. You make art to bring healing to certain areas in your life. Likewise, my son has been brought to bring healing & I have created you to use you to bring healing to others. Danielle, why do you create art?

Me: To glorify you.

God: Likewise, you have been created to bring glory to me. Why would I create something that is not good, it would not glorify me. Therefore you ARE good. You make art to feel? I felt when I made you. You create to express feeling? Likewise, I made you with expression. Love. I have created you using different brushes. Different medias. Which are your different personality traits. Different spiritual giftings. I have painted you with different tones, different textures, different colours, & shapes. That is part of what makes you paintings unique to you. Likewise, that is how I have created you. Uniquely. You're your own style. I used a special technique on you.

What a loving God. What a loving Father. What a loving, perfect, romancer.
Be blessed.