Never Alone

Brianne Leckness sat on the steps of a church, abandoned by his mom and step-dad. Brianne was 3 years old. Her parents had pinned a note on her shirt: "Please take care of her. We can't any longer." Passed from foster home to foster home, Brianne grew up the best that she could. Brianne remembers how, on her 18th birthday, her mother "blew into town and wanted us to go on The Montel Williams Show and say how she really never wanted to give me up". But Brianne knew the obvious truth: Her mother hadn't wanted her.

Such a story rips into our hearts. It's impossible to imagine such callous desertion. Thankfully, few of us have faced tis kind of abusive abandonment. We have all however, felt the sting of rejection. We have all, in our own way, been left alone. A divorce leaves us without a parent. A misunderstanding leaves us without a friend. An economic downturn leaves us without a job. Whatever the trouble, the result s the same: We feel alone.


When we're in this place, God's bold words echo with hope and perfect clarity: "I will never fail you. I will never abandon you". This straight forward assertion does not mean that our human pain immediately dissolves or that we downplay the seriousness of other's neglect. What it does mean, however, is that God's presence can heal our most lonely place. God's love is the love we are most desperate for, and God's love will never wane. It will never run thin. God's love wil always-always-be with us.


When God says He will not "fail" us, He promise that He will never abandon or neglect those He loves. Gos's love will never let us go, never leave us to ourselves

~amy~