need

What to we really need?

As children we are taught that we need: air, water, food, shelter, and clothing. But is that enough? While these things may sustain our physical bodies, we are more than just bodies, we have souls, we have emotions, we have an innate need to be loved.

Too often we think about what our children need in the physical sense, but forget what they need for emotional health. As adults, we often struggle to show and receive love because we did not receive it (well or at all) as a child. Now, I have the best mom ever - but there were times when I needed her to love me in a new or different way, but I did not know how to express that need. Today I have young adult daughters. How might they need me to love them differently than when they were 5, or even when they were 15?

Our needs change, because we change. One need remains, the need to be loved - because being loved means we belong. Everyone wants to be loved. 

Don't just yearn to belong somewhere, find a way to express your need to be loved, and find those people who will accept you and love you. 

God loves each and every one of us. It is up to us to accept that love and choose to belong to Him.