So Much More Inside...

Beloved Savior,

You came to this world in the body of a man.  You looked like other men, walking about the planet spending time with your friends and working and caring for your mother.  Some may have mistaken you for 'just another guy', but you had SO MUCH MORE INSIDE!!!

Within your flesh, you carry hope and healing.  Within your person, you carry forgiveness, peace and love beyond telling.  You have inside of you, eternity. You have always been and will always be GOD.  Even when my sin crucified you, you were, and always will be Love Incarnate, and the fact that you love me astounds me.

Today I saw unleavened bread, and was whisked away to a time when you took the bread in your sacred hands and offered it to your Heavenly Father, and shared it with your friends.  Today I was among those friends that you urged to "take and eat".
Some saw bread, but I KNOW there is SO MUCH MORE INSIDE!  That bread is your flesh which is given in love for all of us that you love so we can spend eternity BEING LOVED! (That's a lot of love.)  I shared your last meal and shared the cup of the 'new and everlasting covenant'.

Some saw a cup of wine, but I drank blood, which, according to your Old Testament, contained the spirit of the animal it came from.  I drank YOUR blood.  When I drink your blood, I invite your Spirit, your HOLY SPIRIT, to be within me. It washes through my mouth, down my throat, and warms my soul from the inside out. In those minutes after physically taking God into my body, I am flooded with sweetness and pure, intense Love, so much more inside than my soul can fathom or contain.  

So there I stood.  On the outside, just plain old me. But now, there's so much more than me inside. I walked back to my seat carrying within me the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Co-Creator, 1/3 of the Trinity, Savior of the Universe, and the Love of my Life. Within me, I communed with every person who has partaken of the Body and Blood of Christ, and every person who ever will. Inside I am perfected and purified, healed and held.  I am beloved because YOU dwell within me. You love me enough to allow me to consume you, then you fill me with your Holy Spirit, and present me, the best version of me, before Your Heavenly Father.

I kneel and the truth of all of this runs down my face. Each tear is an offering.  Each tear is it's own love story.  Each tear is an apology and a realization of your forgiveness.  Each tear cries out "Glory!"

I love you so, there aren't words strong enough for the"so much more" inside.

Love,
Me