Love
Sometimes God changes people through beauty. We see the mountains. We hear a symphony. The seasons change. A baby grows. Sometimes God changes people through dreams. Peter in Acts 10. Joseph in Matthew 1. Me, a few times. Sometimes God will use pain, or fear, or blessing, or time, or the sunshine or any number of hard and sweet things that happen in life. And sometimes God will use love. I prayed back in March that God would soften my heart. For a long time my heart has been hard toward almost everything except my independence. Hardened to changing my plans or letting my guard down, hardened to the work of God in my relationships, because I didn't want to be changed by anything. A softened heart means being malleable by the things around you. There's a great deal of pain that can be associated with that. "Pharaoh's heart was hard for too long. Soften mine." I met a boy 10 months ago. And by March I could tell it was going to either be the boy or my harde...