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Art Direction by Tim Parker & Beth Lee. Photo by Jeremy Cowart Recently, I was listening to Healing Begins by Tenth Avenue North for the first time in years. It's funny how a song you haven't heard in a long time can suddenly speak into exactly what God has been teaching you. As I listened, I was reminded of a phrase I've heard many times over the years and again in a sermon recently: There is nothing we can do to make God love us more, and there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. He loves us. The older I get, the more I realise how difficult that truth can be to fully believe. Like many people, I've spent much of my life measuring things by performance. Work harder, achieve more, do better. It's easy to carry that same mindset into our relationship with God without even realising it. We can begin to think that God loves us a little more when we're reading our Bible consistently, praying regularly, serving faithfully and generally getting things...