Dear One,

At 6 years old — my mother’s rules had to go!  I had enough!  After all, going off, hiking up to my favorite cave into the high Appalachian mountains was easy for me.  I went often.  By golly, I knew I could make it on my own, thank you very much.

After getting to the top of the mountain I remembered I had left my usual little poke of sausages, pickles, with peanut butter crackers mother would pack for me!  I was hungry!  Yes, I sat there, then went back home!

Did Mom know my angry plans to leave for good!  Of course she did.  Was I still her child, her little daughter?  Absolutely so.  My place at the dinner table was set.

I wonder if someone had asked my mother — “Mrs. Hall, your daughter says she has no need of a mother any longer!  Do you still want her as your daughter?”  All praises to God!  What do you think my mother would have said?

She knew she was my Mother even when I refused to consider myself her daughter.  Her love, her commitment to me was far greater than my commitment to her.  Beloved, so is your Daddy (Abba) Father God’s richest Love for you — His firm forever commitment to you.

You can always depend on Daddy God to keep your place set at the table no matter what!  Yes!  In fact, your place at His table has you name on your Victory Chair sitting next to Him!  Jesus sits at the head of His table He set for you with your name on your chair next to Him long ago!

No matter how many times you get up to go off on your own, fed up — God never lets go of you. The Big News of the Bible is not that you love God!  The Big News is — God richly Loves you!  He tattooed you, your name — on the palms of His Hands (Isaiah 49:16).

Almighty God’s extravagant Love — never ending — never failing — forever — for you — at all costs.  He has you positioned in His richest Love no matter how many mountains you run off too.  Father God knows — He made you His Strong Mountain!

Yes!  Praise the LORD from the Heavens.  Praise Him from the skies.  He knows He is The Summit — your Summit — the Highest place just for you!