Lately...
I've been re-listening to the dramatized version of Anne of Green Gables (produced by Focus on the Family). I knew I wanted to do a post on that. But at the same time, I wanted to incorporate something else into it. Hence, this post.

Late into the book, when Anne is leaving for Queen's College, Marilla and Matthew and Anne are saying goodbye. It's heart-rendering- the dramatists did such an amazing job... it always makes tears well up in my eyes- no lie. At the dearest, hardest part of the scene, Marilla reminds Anne-

"Anne, when you first came to Green Gables, you said something to me."
Anne: "I'm sure I said a great many things!"
Marilla: "Well, you said, 'It's not worth loving something when you have to be torn from it.' I just want to let you know, it is worth it. You were, and still are, worth it."


There. Isn't that something else? Whenever I feel down about myself, I always think of that scene. And of Jesus saying to me, "You could have been torn from Me; it's not like I needed you. But you are worth it. You are more than whatever you've done; I have remade you."