reckless affection, post #1

"Do you know why I searched, Alexa?" he asked me.  "I was seized by the power of a great affection."

" I don't understand what you mean, " I admitted.

Warvold looked deep into my eyes, the wind blowing strands of white and gray hair across his worn face.

"Elyon has only one hope for us, Alexa.  That we would know he loves us.  Do you understand?  The one who made you, the one who made everything.  He loves you.  And more than that, there is nothing you or I need do to earn his reckless affection for us.  That love has driven me to fight his enemy, the enemy of us all."

"I have failed, and failed, and failed again," he said.
"But no amount of failure can move Elyon's hand of affection away from me.  It's inescapable.   To live boldly for that kind of love is the least I can do."

excerpt quoted from, "The Tenth City" The Land of Elyon Book 3, by Patrick Carman.


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How He Loves Us, David Crowder band


He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us oh
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us oh,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.

And we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If His grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
And heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…

That He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.