Do You Feel Loved? How Our 3 Word Question—Am I loved? — Finds God’s Three-Named Answer

How we can know deep down that we are not just tolerated, but beloved by God? Timothy Jones is a pastor and author known for helping people encounter greater warmth and closeness in their relationship with God, and in his new book, Fully Beloved, he’s not afraid to name our brokenness and explore how it can be healed— Timothy believes knowing God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit vividly answers the secret ache beneath our daily aches — that the vibrant truth of the trinity offers an extravagant invitation. It’s a joy to welcome Timothy to the farm table. Guest post by Timothy Jones Am I loved? Just three words, but perhaps no question aches more deeply within us. Maybe no question matters as much.  We need connection with others, now more than ever, when loneliness is epic, when, as a public health official said, it’s epidemic, when the world seems fractured. When relationships feel fragile or even brittle.  “The single desire that dominated my search for delight,” St. Augustine wrote centuries ago, “was simply to love and to be loved.”  I can identify.  Sometimes, answering “Are we loved?” gets complicated. Some of us grew up hearing voices that said, “You […]