We have personalized each passage of the Psalm, so here is the text as we read it in the New International Version of the Bible, and below that is the FLM, personalized version.

Jesus, being fully God, surrendered to the utter fragility of being fully human as well.

We are not the ones holding on for dear life. We are the ones being held!

Belonging Value is the strongest, most urgent motivation in all creation.

This is the best and hardest part of being set free from the Conditional Mindset.

God is the most powerful, which is good news. But more importantly, God is the most good, which is very good news.

How feelings are experienced and expressed by people can tell us important things about God, but they can also lead us to believe things that are not true.

To claim that being loved first is self-centered is, honestly, a bit baffling to me.

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