Trust Your Belovedness

Twice the devil comes at Jesus with the same line, trying to pry his grip from the deepest truth of all. Can you hear it?

If you are the son of God… Matthew 4:3, 6

Are you enough? Do you belong? Are you beloved? The same temptations hit us every day in so many forms.

Today, as a form of prayer, sit with this thoughtful poem. Let it wash over you. Let it sink in.

Trust your belovedness.⁠
Let it be a protest,⁠
an act of resistance,⁠
a song of celebration.⁠
Trust your belovedness in a world⁠
that is rarely satisfied.⁠
Wear it like a badge of honor.⁠
Speak it as confidently as your last name.⁠
Tattoo it to your heart.⁠
When outside forces⁠
chip away at your sense of self,⁠
when life asks you⁠
to hand over the keys,⁠
remember the water.⁠
Remember creation.⁠
Remember how it was good,⁠
so very good.⁠
Let that truth hum through your veins.⁠
Sing it so loud⁠
that it drowns out the weariness of the world,⁠
for the bravest thing we can ever do⁠
is trust that we belong here.⁠
—Rev. Sarah A. Speed⁠, @sanctifiedart