I Made Her

This was something that was given to me just after I became a believer at a summer camp when I was 13. I've kept a copy of it in my Bible and it still makes me tear up whenever I read it. I wish I knew who the author was. I just wanted to share.

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I made her…
She is different.
She’s unique.
With love I formed her in her mother’s womb.
I fashioned her with great joy.
I remember, with great pleasure, the day I created her. 1
To Me she is beautiful.

I love her.
I love her smile.
I love her ways.
I love to hear her laugh
And the silly things she says and does. 2
She brings Me great pleasure.
She is herself, and no one else, this is how I made her.

I made her pretty, but not beautiful, because I know her heart, and I knew she would be vain.
I wanted her to search out her heart, and to learn that it would be Me in her that would draw friends to her. 3

I made her in such a way that she would need Me.
I made her a little more lonesome that she would like to be… only because I needed for her to learn to depend on Me.
I knew her heart.
I know if I had not made her like this she would go her own chosen way and forget Me…her Creator. 4

I have given her many good and happy things… because I love her. 5

I have seen her broken heart, and the tears she has cried alone.
I was with her and had a broken heart, too. 6

Many times she has stumbled and fallen alone only because she would not hold My hand.
So many lessons she has learned the hard way because she would not listen to My voice. 7

So many times I have sat back and sadly watched her go her merry way alone, only to watch her return to My arms, sad and broken. 8

And now she’s mine again.
I made her and then I bought her.
I paid a high price for her, because I love her. 9

I have had to reshape and remold her… to renew her to what I had planned for her to be.
It has not been easy for her or for Me. 10

I want her to be conformed to My image.
This high goal I have set for her, because I love her. 11

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1 Psalm 139:13-16
2 Psalm 139:17
3 1 Peter 3:3-5
4 Psalm 62:5-8
5 Psalm 84:11, Romans 8:32
6 Psalm 56:8
7 Isaiah 53:6
8 Psalm 34:18
9 Romans 5:8
10 Jeremiah 29:11
11 1 Corinthians 2:14