My Sweet Joshua Jet,
I love you with all my heart. Even in your tinyness you have
capture my heart in the biggest way possible. I want the world for you. I want
you to feel the safest and most loved anyone has ever felt. I want you to have
the most encouragement, fun, wisdom, treats, peace, and joy possible! I want
you to have every single resource to enable you to dream without limits or
impossibilities, and find all those dreams fulfilled. I want the world for you.
Normally, this would be an impossible promise to guarantee, but luckily we
don’t subscribe to ‘normal’. I promise these things to you and more beyond what
you could ever ask for or imagine. Everything you’ll ever want or need is found
in one thing: the ever-present, overwhelmingly loving and empowering,
dripping-with-goodness Presence of God. His Presence in your life is literally all
you will need. His presence is in the tangibly felt ooey gooey wrap
around warmness of love. It’s in the “knowing that you know, that you know”
even when you don’t feel it. God dreamt of you from the very beginning of
eternity, awaiting your arrival. He formed you with intention in every detail.
He knows you better than you could ever know yourself and everything he sees is
beautiful! There is nothing you will lack that can’t be found in intimacy with
Him. There is no question that he doesn’t have the answer to. There’s no loss
too great, no sadness too deep, no anger too big that won’t find peace and
refuge in His Presence. There is no craving too big that can’t be satisfied in Him. No need is too small for Him and no dream is too big. There is nothing in
life so constant, so fulfilling, so joyful, so loving, so for you like Jesus’
presence. Sit with Him. Feel His liquid love surround you as you realize He has
been there the whole time. Find yourself in His Presence. His Spirit never
stops speaking about the amazing person He sees you to be. Spend time getting
to know Jesus in the quiet place, and then go into the world and know He is
still just as close in the day to day. Know that all things you see are being
sustained by His supernatural loving presence. Know that you are fully
sustained and empowered by that same presence. Test the limits of His goodness.
Walk the edge of loving too extravagantly, of giving too much, of laughing too
often and then jump in with both feet. Because the Father’s presence will
always protect you, and His will for you is an open pasture. Let your choices
not be informed by money, popularity, ‘reality’, or others, but by what Holy
Spirit says is true. Because no matter what situation you find yourself in,
this promise will always stand: “Seek first God’s kingdom and what God wants.
Then all your other needs will be met as well.” (Matt 6:33) Heal the sick,
raise the dead, and displace demons. Bring restoration and love to people
around you. Prophesy what God loves about them and the good things He intends
for them. Your giftings are endless, and your anointings will change the world.
But always root yourself in the most important thing in life: the outrageously
kind, fiercely loving, all consuming Presence of Jesus. Because the meaning of
life as I see it, my little one, was best summarized by Martin Luther: “Man's [purpose]
is to glorify God by enjoying him forever.” As much as I try, I won’t have all
the answers, I cant protect you from everything, and I wont be the perfect
mama, but I promise I will always point you to the one who does, who can and
who will. In intimacy with Jesus you will truly have everything you will
ever need.
Love,
Mama
