"You trusted me for salvation, but nothing else. Here is your crown daughter, but it holds no jewels." 1 Corinthians 3:14-15
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"Well done good and faithful one, you offered me your entire life. Here is your crown resplendent with jewels" Romans 12:1 and Revelation 22:12 and 2 Peter 1:10-11 and Mark 9:41
I'd already been thinking a lot about love. Because there has been a strain on my heart. It's pain that I have labeled: "necessary and inevitable for every mother". It's the heartstring-cutting that takes place in the letting go of children. I'd never heard it before, that the sons leaving may cut deeper than when the daughters do.