Lord...when I first looked at this picture...it was so beautiful...but within the next second...I found myself saddened at the feeling of someone inside who couldn't see the beauty...they were sitting in the darkness of despair...their heart was broken...and they were hiding inside, thinking no one knew of their sorrow...

Lord...you not only see...you feel the heart of this precious one...you've tried before to comfort them...but they embrace their suffering as a means of punishing themselves for what they think they cannot undue or fix.....they've lost hope for change...for answers...

Lord...send your Holy Spirit to reveal who you are...search out their heart in the Light of your love...expose the unseen enemies of their soul, and the cruel warfare that comes against this one to destroy them...

Let them brake free from this bondage of lies and deception...take their burden upon you...speak your Word to their heart, giving them ears to hear...and let your still small voice reverberate within them..."I AM come, that you might have Life...and have it more abundantly...turn from your unbelief, and sin no more."

Dear one, go and open the window of your heart by faith...see the open way...the only way to peace and love and life.....cast away your fears and self-condemnation...He has come...he is waiting....his arms are open wide...come just as you are...for he's come to you just as you are....longing to hold you as his very own....

Breathe.................Live!