(((((((( Razzleberry )))))))))))

Sometimes the road back is long and difficult, and there can be pain involved. The pain that you put yourself through is much worse than anything that God would put you through. He still loves you and still wants to help you. Your sins have been paid for. It's your choice whether or not you will accept our brother's gift. He has already bought your ticket though, whether you use it or not.

I'm thinking about times in my life when I have excluded myself. I do that over and over and over. I decide for whatever reason that I am unwanted. Once I had just moved, and the first week that we went to church, the teacher of the young women class that I went to told the class that she was taking them to the Nutcracker ballet as a Christmas present. I have never been to a ballet, and I wanted to go. But I assumed that I wasn't invited. Nobody even knew me. I wasn't really a part of that class. So I didn't go. Then I found out later that she had bought a ticket for me, and she felt bad about having spent the money and it was wasted.

Razzleberry, you are invited, and you are loved, and you can come back. The biggest problem with sin is often that people condemn themselves and don't feel comfortable, so they separate themselves and feel like they can't come back. Some things are harder than others, but you can come back and you will be loved and accepted, if you will stop excluding yourself. If you will open your heart and allow yourself to be loved.