This question has rolled around my inner being for a week or so. Heard it on Jack Frosts DVD series "Encountering the Father's Embrace." (www.shilohplace.org - cannot recommend this enough!)
Mmmm... I think my answer is Yes and No. No... to a mushy, clingy, needy expression of love. But yes to what I have experienced of God's healing, renewing love. No to words of 'I love you' that do not bear fruit in the coal-face of daily life. But yes to that joyful bubble of "Thank you Lord!" that surfaces as I read the Word and see the magnificence of his ways and his love.
But am I comfortable with receiving love from others? It depends - or it used to depend on who they were I guess. But I must say I have been hugged and held (sometimes for 4-5 minutes)and gazed at with love by more people in the last 2-3 months than for years before that! And many of them were strangers, or only just met friends, and they were both men and women. Such is the way of those exploring the love of Father's heart together. We have become comfortable with sharing his love together, believing our arms and eyes and voices can convey something of his divine, completely accepting and fully affirming love.
Am I comfortable with giving this warmth and love? Before I met Father's healing love a couple of months ago, I would say barely. Only when ministering to a hurting person - or greeting a good friend. But I am learning - and believing - that as I embrace others they too may just encounter HIS divine love that now has more place in me. And I found that a woman who previously annoyed me a lot by her attitude to life (negative, fussy) and who I avoided because of her long tales of woe, I just go and hug her now. No feelings of discomfort within at all. Astounding! That has to be the unconditional love of Father - who wants to comfort her agitated soul through me. It no longer feels awkward like it used to. Interesting!!?
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