Romans 8:38–39 (NKJV) is one of the most powerful affirmations of God's unbreakable, all-consuming love for us:

“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

These verses are the crescendo of Paul’s deep reflection on suffering, redemption, and the overwhelming victory we have through Christ. After listing every conceivable barrier — death, life, spiritual forces, time, space, and even creation itself — Paul lands on a simple, unwavering truth: nothing can separate us from God’s love.

This isn’t a shallow, sentimental kind of love. It’s a fierce, steadfast, covenantal love that held Jesus to the cross and reaches into the deepest pits of despair and shame.

For someone like me, who has walked through decades of displacement, trauma, depression, betrayal, and abandonment, this promise is not just poetic — it’s oxygen.

There was a time when I believed I was too far gone to be loved. Not just by people — but by God. My story is layered with loss, trauma, rejection, and silence. I’ve known what it is to feel invisible, to believe I was a mistake, to carry the crushing weight of shame for things that weren’t even my fault. And in those moments, when I felt most alone, most broken, I didn’t think anything or anyone could reach me.

Yet even in the darkest closets of childhood and the shadowed memories of adulthood, this truth was always quietly pulsing beneath the surface: I was never truly alone. Even when I couldn’t feel Him. Even when the pain muffled His presence. Even when religion felt more like performance than refuge — He never left.

But then I encountered this love.

A love that didn’t flinch at my darkness. A love that wasn’t scared off by my mess. A love that didn’t hinge on how well I performed or how healed I appeared to be. This wasn’t a love I earned — it was a love that found me. Again, and again.

This is the kind of love that sought me in the midst of my trauma-triggered spirals, my numb years of high-functioning depression, and my moments of utter breakdown. The love that whispered invest in yourself, even when shame told me I  wasn't worth the time. The love that drew my brother back. The love that birthed Healing 💔heARTs💖 out of brokenness. The love that now calls others into freedom through my journey.

When I read these verses from Romans, I don’t see poetic language — I see my life. I see how even in the pit of depression, He never left. How even when I numbed out from pain, He was there. How He waited, gently, until I was ready to let Him in. Not even the lies I believed — about my worth, about my place in this world — could separate me from the love that is mine in Christ Jesus.

This passage doesn’t deny the existence of suffering — it declares that even in suffering, love remains. Love triumphs.

I’m learning now that His love is the safest place. The only constant. And it doesn’t grow weary. It doesn’t give up. It is fierce. It is faithful. And it is forever.

Creative Prompt: Take a piece of art — maybe a canvas or a journal page — and create something that visually expresses the unstoppable nature of God’s love. Use colours, words, or symbols that represent the things you once thought could separate you from Him and then overlay them with imagery or verses that proclaim His nearness and constancy. Let it be a piece that speaks both to your past pain and present redemption.

Closing Prayer:

Father God, thank You for loving me with a love that will never let me go. Thank You that no part of my story is outside Your reach, and no depth of pain is too dark for Your light to enter. When I believed I was too broken to be loved, You held me. When I turned away, You waited with grace. Let this truth — that nothing can separate me from Your love — anchor my heart, renew my mind, and transform how I love others. Teach me to live from the fullness of being loved, and help me carry that love into every broken place I encounter.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.