We Are Children of God

I am a child of God. Really. I am a literal spirit child of my Heavenly Father. I am His creation, and thus, He knows me like no one else. Just as He knows you. We are all His. Just like any parent He is protective of us. He desires the best for us. He wants to educate and counsel us. He wants us to make our own choices after looking at all the facts and then to counsel with Him as we make our final decisions. He wants us to be happy. He wants us to return to Him someday. Being both a daughter and parent of earthly parents and children respectively I am coming to understand little by little, lesson by lesson, what we mean to our Heavenly Father. I see the great love that my mother has for me when I am successful and even when I totally mess things up. I feel that great love myself for my little ones when they are successful and even when they don't make the best choices. As Heavenly Father is constant and never changes, His love for me, both its intensity and frequency, never changes. He loves me fiercely and always. He also knows that I will strive to do my best for Him because as He knows me like no other, throughout my life I have tried and tried to get to know Him, to become like Him. In the times that I've messed up I've been able to get back on the straight and narrow path through the process of repentance. So grateful am I for a loving and loyal and all-knowing Heavenly Father and Savior. So grateful that He never gives up on me but always remembers that I am His child and my earthly success is His focus. It is His focus when it comes to ALL of us. How wonderful to know that I have a divine Father who loves me, desires my success as well as my happiness. How blessed are we all.