Safe Place

My safe place is my husband. This is one of the long reasons why…

Dear Husband…

Before I met you I felt like a little girl who had been put out on the streets with no shoes on. Sometimes the ground would be really hot or really wet and cold. Many times I would get blisters on my feet and formed many calluses. Often I would have to climb mountains with many sharp edges or would walk over glass by accident, and my feet would get cut and bleed.

From time to time a person would come along and give me a bandage to put on my cut feet. It would feel better… for a little while.

Then I met you. You not only gave me bandages, but you put the bandages on my feet. You stayed with me while the wounds healed. And if that wasn’t enough you did something that I could hardly believe. You gave me shoes to wear. Shoes that felt so good. Shoes that I was proud to wear.

More often than I would like, the people who put me out on the streets with no shoes come by and try to take my shoes away. I fight hard to keep them, and sometimes I am able to hang on to my beloved shoes, but sometimes—even though I fight with all my might—they are able to take my shoes away.

This leaves me barefooted again. My feet start to get cut up again. They bleed.

I wait for you to come and bandage my feet and give me another pair of shoes. Promising myself that this time I will fight even harder to make sure that they don’t take the next pair of shoes away from me.

Largely due to your unconditional love, overtime, I’ve learned to get my own shoes and put them on myself. Your love has been a picture of the Father’s love for me. You point me to Jesus time and time again.

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:38-39

My husband is my safe place. I hope you have your own safe place to go.

We all need to feel accepted and loved.

We all need to feel valued and cared for.

May we all give the unconditional love and acceptance in which we all desire.

Wishing you unconditional love today.

Lucille Williams is an author with a message of love and kindness. Order a copy of “The Intimacy You Crave” or “From Me to We.” Get weekly updates and SUBSCRIBE to LuSays today.