Danielle in Baton Rouge

To my Prodigal, I don’t think you realize how much brighter and happier you make my life and the lives of other people around you. I’m not sure you understand how valuable you are. You have so much to offer the world. Your value as a person doesn’t ultimately depend on what you do or don’t do, though. Our good and evil choices and actions do not determine our value in God’s Kingdom. You, like everyone else, are valuable because you exist. And your existence is on purpose. There are not mistakes or accidents in God’s creation. Listen closely – you are not an accident or mistake. You’re a miracle, a masterpiece. “So God created human beings in His own image. In the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27) “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.” (Ephesians 2:10) On the hardest and darkest days – when I despair that the injustice in this world will c