Healing is not a requirement for love; God meets you in the middle of your existence. Rebecca Simon, author of Finding God Every Dayit reminds us that God’s love meets us on our ongoing journey, not just when we’re done. Remember, you are completely adorable just the way you are. Read more below.
You’ve done so much that you forget you’re still allowed to finish. You forget that healing is not a requirement in love – that God is not waiting at the end of your journey, checking whether your heart is finally worthy. And yet, despite all the progress you’ve made, despite all the ways you’ve fought to survive, there are still parts of you that feel set back. The corners of your soul hurt easily. Memories that come back when you least expect them to. You wonder if you will ever find someone who will hold you with your compassion. You wonder if love is something reserved for the version of you who has finally finished the job.
But God never waits for you to be perfect to call you worthy – so why should you love?
Somewhere in the quiet fabric of your story, the world has convinced you that love is a reward – something that can be earned through hard work, and perfection. Somewhere along your journey, you felt like you had to prove that you were healed enough, whole enough, simple enough to be soft enough. That love would only come when you had nothing left to solve. You hold your heart far away. He told himself to wait until it was easy to love, until it was well planned, until the fear was gone.
But healing is not your destination. It is a constant return—to you, to God, to the fact that love was not meant to be the prize you would receive at the end of your suffering.
Love that is meant for you – the kind that shows something sacred, something sacred, will not ask you to hide the very places that taught you how to survive. It won’t back down when it sees your scars or run away from your darkness. The person who is meant to capture your heart will see your strength. They will see the pain and stay anyway – not to save you, or fix you, but to bear with you gently, testifying to the quiet courage it takes to believe in love after all you’ve been through at the hands of this life.
And you will feel it, deeply. It will be very clear that this love is different, this love has roots, because for the first time, you will not feel like you are checking the connection. You will just be accepted. You will just be respected.
This is how God walks. He doesn’t wait for your final version to appear before he accepts it. He always meets you in your situation – in the tender, disturbing moments when your faith feels fragile and you choose to keep trusting in spite of it all. At the end of the day, the love he wrote for you will be like mercy, the same soul. It will respect the whole nature of your personality – not just the polished chapters, but also the middle parts of your story.
If you forgot, here’s your reminder:
You don’t have to be fully healed to be fully loved. You just have to believe that love – the real kind of love, the kind of love that lasts, doesn’t see your brokenness as a burden. It sees it as proof that you stayed soft, that you kept going, that you never stopped reaching for the light – and that’s more than enough. That is more than enough.
