🌿 Today, I will return to love

“Do you love me?” — John 21:15

After appearing to His disciples behind locked doors,
Jesus meets them again by the water.

They are fishing.
He prepares a fire.
They sit together.

And then He turns to Peter—
the one who, days before,
had said he didn’t know Jesus because he was afraid.

And asks:

“Do you love me?”

Not to replay what happened—
but to heal it.

To meet him
in the place he had pulled away—

And bring him back
into relationship.

Today, we don’t have to replay our past—
we can be restored
right where we are.

PRAYER 

Jesus,

You know the moments
I wish had gone differently.

The times I was afraid.
The times I pulled away.

And still—
You meet me there.

Not to bring it all back up.
Not to measure or correct.

But to lovingly restore.

To bring me back—
and welcome me again.

Help me to receive that.

To not stay in what I regret—
but to return to You.

And to trust that
even when I have distanced myself—

You have not left me.

Amen.