Jeremiah 31:3-4

I invite God to speak these words to me. How does God seem to me here? I allow myself to notice the love spoken into my life through these words. I notice what’s going on inside of me as I hear them.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
I will build you up again
and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel.
Again you will take up tambourines
and go out to dance with the joyful.”

I linger with God in the space of this passage before I move on. If I feel “finished,” I linger even a bit longer, asking, Is there anything else, Lord?