This is a poem that was given to me and all of the ladies on our hall in Bethany when I was at Southeastern. It blessed me then and I have remembered it ever since then. I just wanted to share it with everyone so that it may also bless you and you can pass it along to someone else.

BECAUSE I LOVE HER

Author Unknown

I made her. She’s 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.

To Me she’s beautiful…I love her. I love her smile. I love her ways.

I love hearing her laugh and in the silly things she does. 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 learn that it would be ME IN

HER that would draw friends near.

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 want her to

turn to me in her loneliness. I made her a little more dependant than she

would like to be, only because I want her to learn to depend on me.

I know her heart. I know that if I had not made her like this, she

would go her chosen way, and forget about ME…her Creator. I have given

her many good and happy things, because I love her. I have seen her

broken heart, and the tears she has cried all alone. I have been with her

and have had a broken heart, too.

Many times she has stumbled and fallen alone, only because she

would not take my hand. So many lessons she has learned the hard way,

because she would not listen to my voice. 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. And now, she is mine again. I made her and

then bought her. I paid a high price for her…because I love her. 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.

I want her to be conformed in My image. This high goal I have set

for her, because…I LOVE HER.