Unconditional

Last Thursday, I set up a last minute doctor's appointment because of a rapidly changing lump on my chest.  Before I knew it, I was scheduling a minor surgical procedure for later that afternoon to have -- what turned out to be -- a sebaceous cyst removed.  The doctor told me I will probably have a scar on my chest and there is a chance it could grow back.

I came home that night minus one cyst, plus one scar. . . courtesy of three big black stitches.  While I'm not the one to flash my chest to the entire world, therefore minimizing my need for a scar-less one, I'm not going to pretend I wasn't disappointed.  But Adam's about yet another flaw I will forever carry on my body?!

It will be a cute scar!  I will kiss it everyday. 

You guys.  This man!!  I am humbled and overwhelmed by the way I am unconditionally cherished and loved by him.  I can't think of one thing I could do that would make him cherish me less.  I can't loose these last few pounds of baby weight slow enough to make him less attracted to me.  I can't have enough emotional days to make him loose his desire to spend time together each evening.  He still looks at me like he did on our magical wedding day.  So much love.  So much adoration.

He humbles and teaches me with this quiet, constant love, because my personality is too quick to judge those around me.  Too quick to place value on the physical instead of strength of character.  Too quick to pull back when hurt and disappointed.  I had no idea how much I needed to grow in this area.  No idea that my own world would be rocked and changed by true unconditional love.

So I find hope in this new scar on my body.  Hope in a daily reminder to truly cherish the ones God has placed in my life.  Hope that someday I could learn to love in the deepest, truest way that I am each day by the sweet man I call my own.

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Who do you feel the most loved and cherished by?!

// wedding and engagement photos by the gehmans.  i definitely cherish these memories! // 

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