A friend of mine recently uploaded some awesome pictures that caught my attention on Instagram. She was seeing hearts everywhere. Literally little images of hearts. I was intrigued so I naturally investigated.

In light of our series on Creativity…

Meet my friend, Tori, a super cool, artsy type. Tori expresses her creativity in so many ways from how she decorates her house in a crafty-chic manner to the way she takes amazing pictures with her camera. Tori is a photographer and sees life through the perspective of a camera lens. When she started seeing hearts and posted the pics I first thought her sweet hubby was acting romantic. I asked her and she said, “No girl! It’s God loving on me!” Here is Tori’s account of seeing hearts and appreciating God’s unique way of expressing His love just to her.

When Our Eyes Are Open

Sometimes it’s in our loneliest moments, when we feel down-and-out, that God shows up the biggest. I had a dear friend come into my life like the wind, and God transferred their military family out of my life just as quickly. It sounds cheesy, but you know what kind of friend I mean: open, honest, real, loving, kind, generous, and in the same highs and lows of life that you are in. When she moved to the other side of the world, I was crushed! I was moping around like a lost puppy for weeks. One day as I sat on my couch having a pity-party, the most amazing thing happened. God showed his amazing love for me in a very practical, tangible way. It just so happened that the cushions on the couch I was sitting on were posed perfectly, and the sun happened to be at the right placement in the sky so as to cast a shadow thru the perfectly formed couch cushion creating a huge reflection on my TV screen in the shape of a heart. It took my breath away. It was as if God was saying, “Hey, I love you. I’ve got this.”

{pic of toenail heart!}

 

Wow. Of course you do, God.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and I’m back in pity-party mode. I’ve got my feet thrown up over the arm of a chair and I’m admiring the teal nail polish on my toenails when all of sudden I realize the most amazing thing: the polish on my toenail is chipped away in the form of a perfectly shaped heart.

Wow. How many reminders do I need before I get it?

Apparently several, because over the next six months God decided to show His love for me through this most practical way.  To this day, I find hearts plastered to rainy windows in the form of leaves, hand written on my sunroof in the morning dew, etched into my bathtub, in the form of water spills, as greasy finger stains in the dust that forms on my dresser, from bark that’s dragged in on my kid’s feet, all over the sidewalks in the path we take when walking into town, and everywhere in our church. Wow, God loves us.

{heart found at dinner!}

Not a day goes by where I don’t find a heart somewhere unexpected. But never when I’m looking for them. They show up in the mundane of our everyday routine.

{heart found in the cement!}

My kids find hearts now. I can’t think of anything better than my son seeing a heart somewhere and saying “Look mommy! That’s because God loves me!” That’s right buddy, he sure does.  And He loves to show you. And He loves to show off to you.

God is so loving. He’s so funny. And He’s so creative. Once we open our eyes to it, He shows up everywhere.  Ask Him to reveal himself to you today. And watch how He shows up!

 

Thank you, Tori for sharing your experience of seeing hearts with our ever so creative King, Jesus. Isn’t it so neat that as God blesses EACH one of us with the ability to be creative, He shows us HIS OWN creativity daily. It is our job to open our eyes to see it.

How will you look for God’s creative LOVE today?

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