Believing that God delights in us is not always easy because this story about our unlovability resides in the experiential part of our brains. That means we can’t change it through new information alone. As my friend K.J. Ramsey wrote in her book, This Too Shall Last, “The chasm between who God says he is and who we experience him to be is not crossed by whipping our minds into submission with more theological facts.”36 We need the experience of being accepted and loved before we can change the story.
